ALISON TURNER
ALISON TURNER grew up in the mountains of Colorado, where she learned to endure large amounts of time in inclement weather waiting for buses. Her creative work appears in Blue Mesa Review, Wordrunner eChapbooks, Little Patuxent Review, Meridian, and Bacopa Literary Review, among others. She enjoys collaborating on projects that bring marginalized perspectives and experiences into conversations and historical records. She would follow winter forever if her special someone didn’t prefer warm weather.
BEHIND THE BOOK
An interview with Alison Turner about the making of her debut short story collection, Defensible Spaces
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BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR
DEFENSIBLE SPACES
The residents of Clayton, Colorado, must learn to live with what has burned and what threatens to ignite. In Defensible Spaces, a bus driver confronts a rush of memories when an old flame climbs aboard; a trailer park resident attempts to save her home; a reclusive fire mitigation worker fuels public outrage. Throughout ten linked short stories, townspeople work through relationships with alcoholism, history, and each other, negotiating where and when to create their own defensible spaces that might, but will not always, keep them protected.
"Turner’s assured prose brings emotional depth . . . This is a worthy addition to the fiction of the American West."
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY