Alison Kronstadt

Alison Kronstadt is a writer, performer, and goofball living on unceded Lenni-Lenape land currently known as Philadelphia. Over the decade they've spent as an arts educator, they have taught writing to students aged 4-adult in D.C., Ohio, Ecuador, West Virginia, Boston, and now Philly. Alison believes that while arts education is not a substitute for a just restructuring of society, it can be a powerful tool for young people - particularly marginalized young people - to learn to think critically, trust themselves, build expertise in their own voices, and form a practice of self-expression and connecting to our shared humanity. 

In terms of their own writing practice, they are a College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational semi-finalist, a 2019 Best of the Net Nominee, and a published poet and fiction writer in a variety of online journals and print anthologies. They get most excited, however, when their art makes a friend laugh, or makes another queer person feel less alone. 

When they're not teaching or writing, Alison can be found tracking down new places to go swimming, eating pickles (or talking about how much they love to eat pickles), and hanging out with Stanley, their endearingly cranky guinea pig.