Alissa Hartman

Alissa Hartman is author of the debut novella Sift (The 3rd Thing, 2023) recently shortlisted for the Ursula Le Guin Prize. She also penned the chapbook POST (zines + things, 2021). Her writing has appeared in Carve, The Rumpus, The Gravity of the Thing, Propeller, Big Other, Shirley Magazine, and elsewhere. She has been shortlisted for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and she was a longlist honoree for Dzanc’s 2021 Prize for Fiction. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Pacific University and an MA in English Literature from Portland State University. Alissa 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. Originally from North Dakota, she now lives and teaches in the Pacific Northwest.