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Alison Kinney (she/her) is the author of Hood (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016), of which Sister Helen Prejean says, “Provocative and highly informative, Alison Kinney’s Hood considers this seemingly neutral garment accessory and reveals it to be vexed by a long history of violence, from the Grim Reaper to the KKK and beyond–a history we would do well to address, and redress. Readers will never see hoods the same way again.”

Her essays and articles have appeared online and/or in print at The NewYorker.com, The Paris Review Daily, Harper's, Lapham's Quarterly, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Van Magazine, L.A. Review of Books, Longreads, The Believer, LitHub, Hyperallergic, and other publications. Four of her essays have been named Notable Essays in The Best American Essays 2016-2019.

Alison teaches creative nonfiction writing, reading for writers, and writing electives.

Degrees Held

MFA, Creative Writing, The New School

Recent Publications

• The Rejection Lab (Gay Magazine): https://gay.medium.com/the-rejection-lab-89c69d2babe0
• What You Have Seen: Art & Absolution at Bayreuth (Van Magazine): https://van-us.atavist.com/what-you-have-seen
• The Earth in Sadness (The New York Times): https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/28/opinion/divorce-sadness-nature.html

• 2020 Interview: "Reading During Crisis, Part 2," https://www.megaphonic.fm/spouter/30b
• 2019 Interview: "Write at the Grocery Store," https://electricliterature.com/alison-kinney-encourages-you-to-write-at-the-grocery-store/

Performances and Appearances

Research Interests

Creative nonfiction, essay, memoir, cultural history, social justice, opera, nature writing.

Portfolio

HOOD (Bloomsbury Publishing)

How Deep Is Your Love? (Lapham's Quarterly)

The Tough Immigrant Tree (The New Yorker)

The State of Empathy in Charleston (Longreads)

Vote. Sing. Breathe. (Harper's Magazine)