Alissa Park
Entry Year: 2026
Education
M.F.A., New York University (Writers Workshop in Paris)B.A., Elon University
Mary Alissa Park (she/her) is a poet and scholar from Dallas, Texas who holds an M.F.A from New York University's Writers Workshop in Paris and was a guest poet at Deep Vellum's inaugural Music & Literature Festival. Park's interest include contemporary American poetry and poetics, with a specific focus on how female poets compose their speakers and write Eros in the specter of patriarchal and heteronormative social forces.
Research Interests
Poetry and Poetics
Contemporary (21st Century)
American Literature
Gender and Sexuality Studies
