Alyssa Knickerbocker-   

Alyssa Knickerbocker received her MFA in fiction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is currently the Axton Fellow at the University of Louisville. Her work has appeared in Brooklyn Magazine, The Bat City Review, Meridian, Sou'wester, Avery Anthology and others and has been anthologized in The Best of the West 2011: New Stories from the West Side of the Missouri. Her novella, “Your Rightful Home,” was published by Flatmancrooked in 2009 and is now available as an e-book from Nouvella. She is completing a collection of short stories linked by the geography of the San Juan Islands in Washington State, where she lived for many years. She lives in Louisville with her husband and son.