Alston Cobourn was raised in Raleigh, North Carolina and lived in the Chapel Hill area while earning her BA and MLS degrees. After several years in Virginia and Texas, she returned to NC, where she resides with her husband Eric, son Julian, loyal dog Lady, and mischievous cats Powder, Truffle, and Tulip. Alston writes and creates art as a means of exploring her relationship to the external world and the collective human experience. Her poems have been published in defunct college literary magazines, The Blotter Magazine, and Anti-Heroin Chic. Her artwork has been shown in various coffee shops, a church, East Carolina University, and the Greenville Museum of Art.
