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Alissa Hattman is author of the novel Sift (The 3rd Thing, 2023) and the zine POST (zines + things, 2021). Her writing has appeared in Carve, The Rumpus, The Gravity of the Thing, Propeller, Big Other, Shirley Magazine, and elsewhere. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best Microfiction 2020, and she was a longlist honoree for Dzanc’s 2021 Prize for Fiction. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Pacific University and an MA in English Literature from Portland State University. Alissa has taught writing classes and workshops for over 15 years and has worked as a fiction editor, book reviewer, zine librarian, writing group facilitator, and artist-in-residence at several arts centers, most recently Gullkistan Center for Creativity in I ...more

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“…words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out--the silk is her life, her home, her safety--her food and drink too--and if it is attacked or pulled down, why, what can she do but make more, spin afresh, design anew….”
― A.S. Byatt, Possession

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