Bio

Alissa Hattman is a creative writer and literary scholar. She is author of the novel Sift, which was shortlisted for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction in 2024, and her short stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, longlisted for the Dzanc 2021 Prize for Fiction, and have appeared widely in Carve, The Rumpus, The Gravity of the Thing, Mountain Bluebird Magazine, About Place Journal, Propeller, Big Other, Surely Magazine, and elsewhere. Alissa holds an MFA in Fiction from Pacific University and an MA in English Literature from Portland State University. She 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 Iceland. A doctoral student in the English program at York University in Toronto, Alissa studies literature, film, ecology, and gender.

Contact: alissa at alissahattman dot com.