Alison Townsend is the award-winning author of two poetry collections, The Blue Dress and Persephone in America , and a volume of prose, The Persistence of Rivers .
She is a professor emerita of English at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater..
Alison Townsend is the award-winning author of two poetry collections, The Blue Dress and Persephone in America , and a volume of prose, The Persistence of Rivers