Writing Coach
Alisha Dietzman is the author of Sweet Movie (Beacon Press, 2023), winner of the National Poetry Series. A finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Oregon Book Awards, Sweet Movie was also shortlisted for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize.
Her creative and critical work has received support from the Rebecca Swift Foundation, the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the US-UK Fulbright Commission.
In 2025, her poetry 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. She loves helping applicants recognize and narrativize their unique experiences.