Allison Field Bell is pursuing her PhD in Creative Writing, Fiction here at the University of Utah. She received her MFA from New Mexico State University in 2017 and her Bachelor of Arts from Prescott College in 2010. She is originally from a small town in northern California but has spent most of the past decade or so living and writing in the Southwest. Aside from writing, reading, and teaching, she enjoys photography, hiking, traveling, cooking, tending to her array of houseplants, and playing fetch with her cat Sierra.

“My Body,” Hunger Mountain Review, Forthcoming
“Bathtub Story,” Hunger Mountain Review, Forthcoming
“The Two Girls,” New Orleans Review, Forthcoming
“Mother Story,” Alaska Quarterly Review, Forthcoming
“Of the Eating Variety,” Ruminate, 59, 2021
“Darwin and Everything” Moon City Review, 2021
“Across the Street,” The Cincinnati Review, 2021
“Desert Between,” Chapter House Journal, 2021
“River Mountain Summer,” West Branch, No. 95, Winter 2021
“For a Woman,” Witness Magazine, Vol. 33, No. 3. Fall/Winter 2020
“The Body, The Onion: A Balagan,” Shenandoah, Vol 69, No. 2. Spring 2020
“Rack,” The Pinch, Issue 39.2, Fall 2019
“Mothers, Daughters,” The Florida Review, Vol 42, No. 2. Fall 2018
“Sometimes a Tattoo,” Fugue, Issue 55. Summer-Fall 2018
“Be a Woman,” New Madrid, Vol XIII, No. 1. Winter 2018
“Millpond,” The Gettysburg Review, 30:3. Autumn 2017
“Far Enough,” Otherwheres, Vol. 1. 2014
“With All His Clothes,” The American, 2012
“Flesh Wound,” Our Stories, Vol 6, Issue 1. 2011
“Poppies,” Anderbo. 2011
“The Day I Fell Out of Love with Myself,” Anderbo. 2011
“The Ways of the Body,” CIEL Voices and Visions, 2009
“A Tribute to Cesar Vallejo,” Alligator Juniper, Issue No. 14. 2009

Interviews / Reviews / Essays
Review of Marrying Kind by K.L. Cook, New Letters, Vol. 86 Nos. 1 & 2, 2019-2020
“Really Any Desert Creature: A Conversation with Claire Vaye Watkins,” The Brooklyn Rail, 2017
“This Machine Kills Fascists: A Conversation with Kaveh Akbar,” Puerto del Sol, Issue 52.1. 2017
“Lily Hoang’s Revision Workshop Part 2,” Pleaides: Literature in Context, 2016
Review of The Story of My Teeth, by Valeria Luiselli, Puerto del Sol, Issue 51.2. 2016

Quarterly West Prose Editor
University of Utah, PhD Student
New Mexico State University, MFA
Prescott College, BA

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