Allegra Hyde is a three-time Pushcart Prize recipient; winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award for her collection Of This New World (an Electric Literature “Best Collection of 2016”); and a 2017 Bread Loaf Fellow. Her writing has been anthologized in Best American Travel Writing, Best of the Net, and Best Small Fictions, and her stories and essays have appeared in Tin House, American Short Fiction, Kenyon Review, New England Review, and The Threepenny Review, among others. She currently teaches creative writing at Oberlin College, as well as in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.