Kirstin Allio won the Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize from FC2 for her new story collection, Double-Check for Sleeping Children, coming out in 2024. Previous books are the novels Garner (Coffee House Press, LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction finalist), Buddhism for Western Children (University of Iowa), and the story collection Clothed, Female Figure (Dzanc). Recent stories, essays, and poems are out or forthcoming in AGNI, American Short Fiction, Bennington Review, Changes Review, Conjunctions, Fence, Guernica, Guesthouse, Harp & Altar, The Hopkins Review, Interim, New England Review, Plume, Poetry Northwest, Subtropics, Verseville, and elsewhere. Her honors and awards include the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award, a PEN/O. Henry Prize, the American Short(er) Fiction Prize from American Short Fiction, and fellowships from Brown University’s Howard Foundation and MacDowell. She received her M.F.A. from Brown, and lives in Providence, RI.
At MacDowell, she broke new ground on several poems, since published, and completed a draft of her new novel, Burrows.
