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Alison is a veteran nonprofit leader with previous appointments at Cave Canem Foundation (Executive Director, 2006 – 2016), Hill-Stead Museum, CT (Poetry Director and Director of Marketing, 2000 -2006), and Oberlin, OH, Consumers Co-op (General Manager). She also has served as Director of Development at the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses, and for many years owned and managed an independent bookstore in Connecticut. She consults as a LitNYS mentor for New York State literary arts nonprofits, is Treasurer of the Board of Kweli, and serves on Monroe Community College’s Arts & Humanities Advisory Board. Alison is a Pushcart Prize‐nominated poet, fiction writer, and essayist whose work may be found in journals and anthologies and at www.alisonmeyers.com.