Alison Stine Books in Order

These poems combine personal confession and reflection with dramatic storytelling. Their speakers confront estrangement and attempt to summon a sense of family, using pauses and self-questioning to explore the possibility of recognition and emotional repair.

A narrator's encounter with a football coach opens a landscape of secrets, disappearances, and threatening attention. Set among Ohio's fields and woods, these poems explore the violence beneath ordinary lives and the uncertainty of telling what happened.

Across the year before a young woman's marriage, a small town becomes a place of watching eyes and unsettling omens. These poems mix fairy-tale images with gothic menace as an unknown presence waits beyond the town.

Expelled from school, Esmé moves into her grandmother's strange Appalachian house and discovers a town full of disappearances and impossible occurrences. Her friendly young neighbor is dead, leaving her to question both her surroundings and herself.

Devon and her disgraced father seek a fresh start in an Ohio town where young men begin disappearing. When her first love vanishes, mysterious graffiti and a stranger draw her toward the darkness threatening their community.

When spring fails to arrive for a second year, Wylodine leaves Ohio with seeds and growing equipment to find her family. Her ability to cultivate plants makes her valuable and vulnerable amid freezing roads and desperate survivors.

In a flood-altered future, Coral scavenges plastic from an Appalachian junkyard while saving to rescue her child from forced labor. Her art offers another way to endure, and a visiting reporter raises difficult possibilities for escape.

Thea's family moves to drought-stricken Colorado, where isolation and restrictive parents leave her with few choices. Meeting a deaf teenager introduces her to sign language and a community that challenges what she has been taught about herself.