Allison GruberAllison Gruber is an essayist and educator. Her work has appeared in Brevity, Pithead Chapel, The Forge Literary Magazine, The Sonora Review, The Literary Review, Hippocampus, and decomP MagaznE, among others. Gruber's debut collection, You're Not Edith (George Braziller, 2015) was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. She has also been a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee. Her essay, A Music in the Head received a notable mention in Best American Essays (2015). She is a regular contributor to Flagstaff Live's Letter From Home series. An earlier version of this manuscript was a finalist for Kore Press' Memoir Competition, judged by Cheryl Strayed. She holds an MFA in Writing from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and now lives and teaches in Tucson, Arizona. Read More Read Less