Allie Rowbottom
<DIV><B>Allie Rowbottom</B> received her BA from New York University, her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, and her PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston. Her work has received scholarships, essay prizes and honorable mentions from <I>Tin House</I>, <I>Inprint</I>, the <I>Best American Essays</I> series, the <I>Florida Review</I>, <I>The Bellingham Review</I>, the <I>Black Warrior Review</I>, <I>The Southampton Review</I>, and <I>Hunger Mountain</I>. She lives in Los Angeles.</DIV>