Kirstin Allio received the Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize from FC2 for her 2024 story collection, Double-Check for Sleeping Children. Previous books are the novels Garner (Coffee House Press), Buddhism for Western Children (University of Iowa), and the story collection Clothed, Female Figure (winner of the Dzanc Short Story Collection Competition). Her stories, essays, and poems are published widely, and she’s been supported by fellowships from Brown University’s Howard Foundation and MacDowell. She lives in Providence, RI.