Allison C.  Macy-Steines

Allison C. Macy-Steines writes both prose and poetry, and she is passionate about bending the boundaries between genres. Macy-Steines earned her M.F.A in Writing from Pacific University and holds a B.A. in Journalism and Media Studies from UW-Milwaukee. Her writing is published or forthcoming in The Missouri Review, River Teeth, Southern Humanities Review, Mom Egg Review, Under the Gum Tree, and elsewhere.

 

Her work has been nominated for Best of Net, longlisted for Palette Poetry’s Rising Poet Prize, and selected as a finalist for Kenyon Review’s Developmental Editing Fellowship. She recently began teaching creative writing classes and workshops and for the last decade has worked in nonprofit communications, community engagement, and content creation. She grew up in Illinois, and now lives in Oregon, with her husband, daughter, pup, and another incoming kiddo.