Alison Turner

Alison Turner grew up in the mountains of Colorado, where she learned to endure large amounts of time in inclement weather waiting for buses. Her creative work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and her stories appear in Blue Mesa Review, Wordrunner eChapbooks, Little Patuxent Review, Meridian, and Bacopa Literary Review, among others. Her first collection of short stories, Defensible Spaces, was published by Torrey House Press in 2023. She is currently an ACLS Leading Edge postdoctoral fellow working on a community-based oral history project in Jackson, Mississippi.