Alise Alousi

Who is Alise Alousi?

Alise Alousi is an Iraqi American poet living in Detroit and is also director of Alternatives for Girls, a local program to keep young women from dropping out of school. Born to an Iraqi father, Alousi still has relatives in Iraq.

As an Arab American poet, Alousi is also associate director of InsideOut Literary Arts Project, a creative writing program serving Detroit's youth. Her work has recently appeared in Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry and will appear in Mutanabbi Street Starts Here late in 2009.

She is a member of Women in Black in Detroit.