ABOUT

Alyssa Froehling (she/her) is a poet from the Midwest. She earned a BA in English and Creative Writing with a minor in Women & Gender Studies from Augustana College in 2017 and an MFA in poetry from Ohio State in 2021.

While at OSU, Alyssa was the recipient of the Vandewater Poetry Award in 2019, judged by Christopher Kempf, and received the award again in 2020, judged by Aaron Coleman. She is also the 2020 and 2021 winner of the Arthur Rense Prize, part of the University and College Poetry Prize program hosted by the Academy of American Poets. In 2024, she was a finalist for the Coniston Prize, judged by January Gill O'Neil.

Alyssa was Poetry Editor of The Journal from 2019 to 2021, and she is currently an Assistant Poetry Editor of Sundog Lit. She lives in Madison, WI, with her spouse and her dog, Duckie.

Her poems appear in The Pinch, The Boiler, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. She is currently working on her first full-length collection of poetry.