Alan Albert’s first book of poetry, Fragments of the Natural (2015), was published by WordTech Communications, Cincinnati, Ohio.

In January of 2016, Albert was chosen by Vijay Seshadri to be one of seven readers for the AWP Donald Hall Poetry Prize competition. In this role, he read approxi-mately 90 submitted manuscripts recommended two to be sent on to Mr. Seshadri for final review.

His poetry has appeared in the following journals: Alumni Poetry Center Journal of Bos-ton University, The American Poetry Review, The Black Warrior Review, California Quarterly, The Cortland Review (online journal with audio recording of poet), Grub Street, Kansas Quarterly, Madrona, The Massachusetts Psychological Association Quarterly, Mercy of Tides: Poems for a Beach House (Dartmouth, MA: Salt Marsh Press), Mississippi Review, New Infinity Review, Obras, Poetry East, Poetry Now, Santa Clara Review, Southwest Review, Talk-ing Writing (online Journal), Wisconsin Review, The Worcester Review, and Y’Bird Magazine

Albert has been awarded Artist Residencies from The Ragdale Foundation (2016), The Banff Centre (2013), and The Vermont Studio Center (2010). Also in 2010, he received a Scholarship Grant in Poetry from the 41st Annual Squaw Valley Com-munity of Writers Conference.

He has been a Finalist and Semifinalist in the Massachusetts Artists Foundation Fel-lowship Program.

Over many years, Albert has been active in the poetry community in the Greater Boston area. Most recently he has been a featured reader at the Brookline Poetry Series, The Trident Bookstore and Café in Boston, Newtonville Books, the Newton Public Library Poetry Series, Porter Square Books in Cambridge, the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, the Chapter and Verse Poetry Series in Jamaica Plain, and the Calli-ope Poetry Series in Falmouth, Massachusetts. He has taught poetry writing at The Cambridge Center for Adult Education in Cambridge, Massachusetts and at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California.

From 2008 to 2017, he was a member of the William Joiner Institute for the Study of War and Social Consequences Writers’ Workshop, at the University of Massachu-setts, Boston. There he has studied with Fred Marchant, Bruce Weigl, and Martha Collins. Also in Boston, Albert has worked with Barbara Helfgott Hyett in The Workshop for Publishing Poets. He was selected as a member of the Colrain Manu-script Conference (2007), working with Jeffrey Levine, Editor of Tupelo Press, and Fred Marchant.

He has attended the Palm Beach Writers Festival (2007), working with Alan Shapiro, and The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, working with Vijay Seshadri (2006) and Tom Sleigh (2007). In his prior academic career, Albert studied with Karl Shapiro, Sandra Gilbert, and Jack Hicks at the University of California, Davis. As a student in the undergraduate Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa, he studied with Marvin Bell, Thomas Lux, and Philip Dacey.

Alan Albert is a practicing psychologist in Newton, Massachusetts. He holds a doc-torate in clinical psychology from Antioch University New England and has taught and supervised widely in the areas of group dynamics and group therapy. His disser-tation, The Internal Experience of Identity Development of Ten Male Poets, ex-plored the lives of ten actively publishing poets, from poets with one book published to a Pulitzer Prize winner. He lives in Dedham, Massachusetts with his partner, Susan Nisenbaum Becker.