Allison Blevins is a queer, disabled writer. She received her MA at Pittsburg State University and MFA at Queens University of Charlotte. She is a Lecturer for the Women's Studies Program at Pittsburg State University. She is also a poetry and nonfiction mentor at Middle Tennessee State University. Her work has appeared in such journals as Brevity, Mid-American Review, the minnesota review, and Raleigh Review. She is the author of the hybrid collection Cataloguing Pain (YesYes Books, 2023), the lyric nonfiction collection Handbook for the Newly Disabled: A Lyric Memoir (BlazeVox, 2022), and the poetry collection Slowly/Suddenly (VA Press, 2021).