Allison Joseph is a poet, professor and editor. She currently serves as the director of the MFA Program at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, where she is also the editor of the literary journal Crab Orchard Review. Her latest books of poems are Lexicon (winner of the Poetry by the Sea: A Global Conference Best Book of 2021) and Confessions of a Barefaced Woman (a finalist for the NAACP Image Award in Poetry). She is the widow of the late poet and editor Jon Tribble.