Stephanie Andrea Allen, Ph.D. is a southern writer and scholar living and working in the Midwest. She is Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at Indiana University, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief at BLF Press, co-founder of the Black Lesbian Literary Collective, and co-editor of Serendipity Literary Magazine. Her work can be found in various online and print publications, including Star*Line, Inkwell Black, Big Echo: Critical Science Fiction Magazine, Sinister Wisdom, and in her two short story collections, A Failure to Communicate and How to Dispatch a Human: Stories and Suggestions. In her spare time, you can find her baking southern delicacies and debating the merits of the Oxford comma with her cat Mango.