Alison Clement

Alison Clement is the author of Pretty Is As Pretty Does (MacAdam/Cage, 2001) and Twenty Questions (Washington Square Press, 2006). Pretty was both a Barnes and Nobles Discover Great New Writers and BookSense selection. Twenty Questions won an Oregon Book Award for fiction. Her work has appeared in The Sun, The Alaska Quarterly Review, High Country News, Calyx and Salon. One of her short stories was chosen by Stephen King as a notable in Best American Short Stories 2007. Another was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has been awarded an Oregon Literary Fellowship and a Joyce Carol Oates Graduate Commencement Award. In 2014, Clement earned an MFA from Oregon State University.