Allie is a writer from outside of Memphis, TN. She can currently be found in Arkansas where she is an assistant editor at the Oxford American. She is also the nonfiction editor for Midway Journal. You can read some of her writing here.
Allie’s short story collection, Dead Women and other stories, was a finalist for the Black Lawrence Press 2020 Hudson Prize.
In 2020, Allie won 2nd place in the Philadelphia Stories Marguerite McGlinn Fiction Contest. In 2018, Allie won the Big Sky, Small Prose Contest, and in 2018 and 2019, she won the SCMLA Short Story Prize.
Allie also frequently rides bikes. Occasionally, she has the good luck to write about it.
Zeus, her dachshund mix, left for sweet bye-and-bye in August of 2022.
Allie Mariano 