Allison Vincent is a Queer writer, teacher, and theatermaker. She’s a teaching specialist in the Writing Studies Department at the University of Minnesota, and her fiction has been previously published in Little Ghosts’ Demons and Death Drops Anthology, Roi Fainéant Literary Press, Rejection Letters, The Empty Room, Freshwater Press’s Dirty Girls Come Clean Anthology, Hypertext Magazine, and Unsettling Reads’ Summer Bludgeon Anthology. Her short story, “Bag It Up,” received an honorable mention in the 90th Annual Writer’s Digest Fiction Contest, and her short story, “Find Your Light,” is a 2023 Pushcart Prize and “Best American Short Stories” nominee from Hypertext Magazine. Allison is a 2022 Pillsbury House and Theater Naked Stages Fellow, a 2023 Everwood Farmstead Fellow, and the recipient of the Loft Literary Center/MISA Fellowship. She lives in St. Paul, MN, with her wife, Leslie, and their dog, Murphy.