Allison Landa

Allison Landa is a Berkeley, Calif.-based writer who has held residencies at
the MacDowell Colony, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts and the
Julia and David White Artists' Colony. She received her MFA in creative
writing from St. Mary's College of California, and this essay is excerpted
from "Bearded Lady," a memoir in the works. Visit her at www.allisonlanda.com.