Allison is a Taiwanese immigrant with an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and serves on the executive board of Calliope Writing Coach. She’s a writer-in-residence in France, Italy, and Greece; a permanent staff at Writing Away Refuge, and a former editor at Dialogue Journal. Her bylines appear in The New York Times and HuffPost. Her memoir, Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops, won the Grand Prize in the Millennium Book Award (UK) and the Shelf Unbound Indie Book Awards, among others. She’s a frequent conference keynote speaker and presenter. She also appears on TV, radio, and podcasts; in newspapers, magazines, and journals.