Alyson Hallett

Alyson Hallett was born in Somerset to a working class family and was the first generation to go to university. She chose the University of East Anglia where she studied comparative literature. Her love of world literatures, translation and diverse cultural traditions has never diminished. Alyson has published twenty books of poetry, prose and collaborative work with scientists, visual artists and poets. She has written for Radio 3 and 4, won first prize in the Scintilla Long Poem competition, and established her own writing school during the Pandemic, The Guerilla College of the Free Arts. Alyson is a Hawthornden Fellow, has taught at Arvon and Moniack Mhor and worked for the Royal Literary Fund for nine years as a Fellow, Mentor and Reading Round convenor. For the past twenty years she has curated the international poetry and public art project, The Migration Habits of Stones, and sited stones with words carved into them around the world. Alyson is currently working on a project to decolonise a university rock collection following a Fellowship and exhibition of poetry and rocks in the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol. www.alysonhallett.com & thestonelibrary.com