ALLISON

MEI-LI

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Allison Mei-Li is a poet, mother, and speech-language pathologist living in Ventura County, CA. She reads poetry submissions for The Turning Leaf Journal and hosts poetry-centered events locally and online. Her work has appeared in journals such as Rust and Moth, Coffee and Crumbs, MER Literary, Voicemail Poems, Ink and Marrow, Wildscape, and others.

Allison’s debut collection, A History of Holding, releases November 11th. Subscribe to be the first to receive updates and behind-the-scenes exclusives.

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    WRITING

    Poems, book reviews, & articles published in Only Poems, Rust & Moth, Coffee & Crumbs, and more.

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    EVENTS

    Learn about upcoming events and creative offerings, both in person and online.

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    NEWSLETTER

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    PRINTS

    A curated selection of prints based on my original poems, designed to frame, gift, and keep.

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**GIVEAWAY ALERT! Simply leave an emoji below to win a free ticket! I have 5 tickets to give away. I'll notify winners on September 20th.** I'm excited to share that I'll be presenting at the 2025 Mental Health & Motherhood Summit happening Octo
Sharing the promises I made myself when I set out to write and self-publish my debut poetry collection. In honor of slow art, here are a few artists I’m loving lately: @gpsquirrel : very cool cyanotypes @lindsaywilkins.art : gorgeous, vibran
One of the best weekends of my life!!!!! We’d written together over Zoom, sent DM’s, edited each other’s work in Google docs. But this weekend, I met my fellow poets in person for the first time in the magical city of Chicago. We sa
We've got one spot left for our next poetry sound bath on August 28th in Camarillo. Visit writtenbyallison.com/events to grab the last ticket, or sign up to be the first to know when we gather again. Sound bath by @resounding_you Poetry by @writt
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