Guerrilla memoirist, essay writer, playwright and travel journalist, Allison Williams has written about race, culture and comedy for National Public Radio, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Prairie Schooner, Kenyon Review Online and Travelers’ Tales. She currently serves as Social Media Editor for Brevity. Her fiction has appeared in Crossed Genres, Smokelong Quarterly, Deep South and The Drum; her plays include the Heidemann Award finalist Miss Kentucky, scripts for NPR’s All Ears Theatre, and the London Fringe Best Of Fringe winner, TRUE STORY. She received her MFA from Western Michigan University and has been a teaching fellow at the Prague Summer Program and the Kenyon Writers Workshop (with Dinty W. Moore), and an Associate Artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts with Rick Moody, Dani Shapiro and David Shields. As a storyteller, Allison has performed at London’s Theatre Royal and Rich Mix, Filocafe in Mumbai and The Kautilya Society in Varanasi, India, and is a twotime winner of The Moth StorySLAM. As a former aerialist and acrobat, she performed in 23 countries. Home base is currently Dubai, where “The Pork Shop” is a separate, dimly-lit room at the back of the supermarket. It’s like buying meat porn. Find her at www.idowords.net and on Instagram and Twitter @guerillamemoir
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