About Allison

New York-born and California-raised, I eat pizza as easily as I do avocados.
I earned my MFA in fiction writing from St. Mary's College of California and my undergraduate degree in political science and anthropology
from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
The recipient of fellowships at Writers in Paradise
and the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference,
I have been awarded residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Mill House Writers,
Playa Summer Lake, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts,
and The Julia and David White Artists Colony.
I am proud to teach at the Writing Salon
and to have been a member of Page Street Writers
and the San Francisco Writers Grotto.