The Creative Writing Series invites you to an evening with Alisha Dietzman. A Q&A and book signing will follow. Hammes Notre Dame Bookstore will be on site with copies of the author's books available for purchase.
Alisha Dietzman is the author of Sweet Movie (Beacon, 2023), selected by Victoria Chang for the National Poetry Series. A finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and the Oregon Book Award, Sweet Movie was also shortlisted for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize. Her chapbook, Slow Motion Something For No Reason (Factory Hollow Press, 2022), was the editors’ choice selection for the Tomaž Šalamun Prize. She received her MFA in Poetry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and her PhD in Divinity from the University of St Andrews, where she wrote a thesis examining ethics in contemporary art, supported by a grant from the US-UK Fulbright Commission. Her creative and critical work has also received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rebecca Swift Foundation, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park. In 2025, her manuscript-in-progress, XOXO, was selected by Cynthia Cruz for the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award, and her short story, “California,” was named a runner-up for the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize. Raised between Columbia, South Carolina and Prague, Czechia, she now lives in Oregon.