Alison Luterman

Alison Luterman was raised in Massachusetts, the oldest of four children, and moved to Oakland, California in 1990. Her poems have been published in The Sun, The Brooklyn Review, Slipstream, Tattoo Highway, and on the Library of Congress web site Poetry 180. Several of her poems have been featured as Poetry in Motion posters on buses and subway trains in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Portland, Oregon. She has also published many personal essays and feature articles and has written several plays.

She writes frequently about her neighborhood, social justice, personal relationships, urban wilderness, and the uses of art, especially poetry and theater.