ALISON ARMSTRONG is the author of two books, The Joyce of Cooking: Food & Drink from James Joyce's Dublin (Station Hill Press, 1986) and "The Kerne's Egg" by W. B. Yeats: The Manuscript Materials (Cornell Univ. Press, 1993). She received the Una Ellis-Fermor Grant (Univ. College London) in 1978 for her work in Dublin on Yeats' manuscripts. Her articles, reviews, short stories, and poetry have appeared in diverse publications, including BOMB, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, Exquisite Corpse, New Observations, Notre Dame Review, Omnium Gatherum (a festschrift for Richard Ellmann), Mid-American Review, Progressive Architecture, PN Review, Sea Kayaker and Yeats Annual (UK). In 1979 she was a founding editor of James Joyce Broadsheet (published at University of Leeds, UK). In 1980-81 she was fiction editor at The Kenyon Review, and since 1982 a contributing editor to Irish Literary Supplement.

          She holds an M.A. in English from Ohio State Univ., an M.Litt. in Anglo-Irish Literature from Oxford Univ. (UK), and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from New York Univ. Between 1970 and 1998, she taught courses in poetry, fiction, drama, and non-fiction writing for Ohio State University, Oxford University (UK), The Cooper Union, New York University, The New School for Social Research, Pace University, The College of the Atlantic, Marymount College, Gotham Writers' Workshop, and Marist College. She has participated in numerous literary conferences in Europe and the U.S. and given readings of her own short fiction and poetry in New York City and at The Depot Theatere, Garrison's Landing, New York.

          In 1998-99 she contributed a column, "Food Thoughts," to thirteen issues of The Ninham Times Magazine, which also published her two part article on architecture, "Richard Upjohn in Philipstown." In June and July, 1998, she directed the plays, Dying Like a Man and Happy Days (Act I) at The Depot Theater. Since December 1998 she has been an independent publishers' representative with Sirak & Sirak Associates. She continues to review books and is revising a novella set in Venice.

          Memberships include The Authors Guild, James Joyce Foundadtion, The James Joyce Society of New York, and The Yeats Society. She lives in Greenwich Village . . . and Pennsylvania's Endless Mountain region.
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