Allison Benis White is the author of The Wendys, Please Bury Me in This, winner of the Rilke Prize, and Small Porcelain Head, selected by Claudia Rankine for the Levis Prize in Poetry. Her debut, Self-Portrait with Crayon, won the Cleveland State University Poetry Center First Book Prize. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, Pushcart Prize XLI & XLVII: Best of the Small Presses, and elsewhere. She has received honors and awards from the Poetry Society of America, the San Francisco Foundation, and the Academy of American Poets. She teaches at the University of California, Riverside.