Alison Clarke is a poet, fantasy author, and visual artist who is also the Amazon #1 bestselling author of Phillis: A Poetry Collection (University Of Calgary Press, 2020), and the award winning series, The Sisterhood, for which she won the Diversity Magazine award for 2016 Writer Of The Year. She has also won the 2020 Fil Fraser award for her contributions to literary and visual art. Alison was the 2021 Writer In Residence of the Alexandra Writers’ Centre.
Most recently, in 2023, Alison has been awarded a Hearst Foundations Fellowship from the American Antiquarian Society, for research on an upcoming historical fiction series, which includes M: The Mystical Odyssey Of Harriet E. Wilson, that will be Book One of this series.
Fellowships
- 2024: Hearst Foundations Fellowship