Poetry. Fiction. Thalia Field says, "Allison Carter writes the small and indelible installments of domestic life; what fits in a pocket, a post-it, just below the radar. In lovely prose, she challenges us to imagine the bigger picture just outside the frame. [...] There is something both eerie and real about this microscopic world, the way one feels the first time you realize that ants have complex lives. What? That's us? Yes. In this great debut book." A FIXED, FORMAL ARRANGEMENT is published as part of the TrenchArt Tracer series, with an introduction by Danielle Dutton and visual art by Susan Simpson and Ken Ehlich.

Author Hometown: LOS ANGELES, CA USA



About the author: Allison Carter lives in Los Angeles, where she teaches a workshop in hybrid forms at CalArts and designs web sites for arts organizations. She is the author of A FIXED, FORMAL ARRANGEMENT and a chapbook Shadows Are Weather (Horse Less Press, 2008). She co-edits P S Books with Joe Potts.

Reviews:
http://www.bookslut.com/poetry/2008_12_013863.php
http://www.thediagram.com/9_3/rev_carter.html
http://www.newpages.com/bookreviews/2009_03/march2009_book_reviews.htm#Fixed,Formal