Allison Field Bell is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Utah, and she has an MFA in Fiction from New Mexico State University. She is the author of the poetry chapbook, Without Woman or Body, forthcoming 2025 from Finishing Line Press and the creative nonfiction chapbook, Edge of the Sea, forthcoming 2025 from CutBank Books. Allison's prose appears or is forthcoming in SmokeLong Quarterly, DIAGRAM, The Gettysburg Review, The Adroit Journal, Alaska Quarterly Review, West Branch, Okay Donkey, The Citron Review, thrush, Aquifer, and elsewhere. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review, Passages North, Palette Poetry, RHINO Poetry, The Greensboro Review, and elsewhere. Find her at allisonfieldbell.com.
Pink adobe walls and buckling roof. The stacks of prickly pear on either side of its small frame. The door and windows in perfect alignment like a sad open face. I wonder who lives there, and if it is a woman. And if the woman has fits of anxiety. If she sobs and carries on over the smallest thing. If… Read more →
Winter when Lily and I take a bath together. Our bodies side-by-side, foot-to-hip. You can make it sexual if you want, but it isn’t. Michael is in the other room reading. The bath water is almost too hot. Lily leans her head against the wall, her hair trailing in the water, the gold beads of her earrings glittering in the… Read more →