Biography

Alison Luterman Bio

Official bio for conferences, workshops, and readings:

Alison Luterman’s first book, The Largest Possible Life, won the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize
in 2000 and was published in 2001.  Her second book, See How We Almost Fly, is forthcoming in 2005.  Two of
her poems appear on the Library of Congress website Poetry 180, and are collected in the anthology of the
same name.  A recent poem, “I Confess,” won the Fine Lines Contest sponsored by Oil of Olay, and can be
seen on their website at http://www.total-effects.com/contest/index.shtml.  Her poems, short stories, and essays
have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including The Sun, Poetry East, Kalliope, Whetstone,
Oberon, The Comstock Review, Iris, Pleiades, The Brooklyn Review, and others.  Anthologies include A More
Perfect Union, Orpheus Descending, How Luminous the Wildflowers, and Poetry 180.

She has taught poetry workshops and given readings at Esalen Institute, Rowe Conference Center, Omega
Institute, The Mendocino Coast Writers Conference, and The Santa Barbara Writer’s Conference, among
others.  

Alison Luterman’s first full-length play, Saying Kaddish With My Sister, received a staged reading in San
Francisco from A Traveling Jewish Theater in May of 2004, and is currently seeking a full production.

She performs regularly with the improvisation ensemble Wing It! and teaches creative writing through California
Poets in the Schools, the Writing Salon, and Interplay in the San Francisco Bay Area.  She is also available for
private consultations and workshops.

Unofficial Bio:

Oldest of four children, auntie to six gorgeous rambunctious nephews and two perfect nieces.  Libra girl with
Aquarius rising and moon in Capricorn.  I live in a big house in the Fruitvale area of Oakland and have
housemates.

Passions include rolling around on the floor making funny noises with my fellow improv winglings, hiking in
Redwood Park in the hills near my home, children’s rights, and a capella singing.  I am (as of September 2004)
working on a movie script, have several unpublished children’s stories languishing in my computer, and am
taking a watercolor class.