Alison Benis White is an American poet.
White is the author of Self-Portrait with Crayon, which was selected by poet Robert Hill Long as the winner of the 2008 Cleveland State University Poetry Center First Book Prize.
[1] Her second manuscript, Small Porcelain Head, was selected for the 2011 Four Way Books Levis Prize by poet Claudia Rankine.
[2] Her poems have appeared in journals such as The American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, Pleiades, and Ploughshares.
[3] She has received the Indiana Review Poetry Prize, the Bernice Slote Award from Prairie Schooner, the Lucille Medwick Award, and a Writers Exchange Award from Poets & Writers.