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Alison Wisdom

Alison Wisdom
Born, raised, and based in Houston, Texas, Alison Wisdom has an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, received a novel-writing grant from Wedgwood Circle, and was a finalist for this year's Rona Jaffe Award. She has attended Tin House and the Lighthouse Writers Workshop, where she was a finalist for the Emerging Writers Fellowship. Alison's short stories have been published in Ploughshares, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, Indiana Review, and more. Her latest novel, The Burning Season, is now available.


Allure and Illusions: My Seven-Year-Old, Me, and the Cult of Gymnastics

Alison Wisdom Finds Similarities Between an Elite Sport and a Fundamentalist Church
September 21, 2022  By Alison Wisdom
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