Alison Turner was born in the mountains of Colorado, where she learned to spend large amounts of time outside. She has an MA in Comparative Literature from the University of Alberta, and an MFA in fiction from Bennington College. Each book she reads makes her certainty smaller, and each time she travels the world feels larger. She has other stories published in Little Patuxent Review, Mixed Fruit, and Extracts.
A novella in stories: In this subtle and nuanced probing of family dynamics, a brother and sister find themselves “in the middle of the kind of stillness that comes from size.” She wants to disappear; he likes mysteries.