ABOUT
ALISON FISHBURN is a Pushcart-nominated writer, award-winning playwright, performer, and community organizer. Born and raised in Florida, she has written plays since 2009, self-producing three full length plays in New York City, directing one. She debuted her solo performance Church Boyfriends & Other Impure Thoughts at the 2023 Hamilton Fringe Festival in Hamilton, Ontario where it won “Best In Venue” at Theatre Aquarius.
Her theater training includes studying & performing improv at Magnet Theater and Upright Citizens Brigade, and studying acting and playwriting at The Barrow Group in New York. She has an art degree from Brooklyn College and an MFA in creative nonfiction from University of King’s College.
Her writing has been published by Longreads, The Outline, and SAND Journal (Issue 24). Her flash creative nonfiction essay “Safety” was nominated by SAND for The Pushcart Prize.
In 2022, she launched the Riverside Reading Series, a literary organization in Paris, Ontario that supports writers of all ages and professional levels. She joined the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Wilfrid Laurier University in Brantford as a creative writing instructor in January 2024.
She lives in Paris, ON.
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ALISON FISHBURN is a Pushcart-nominated writer, award-winning playwright, performer, and community organizer living in Paris, Ontario. Her writing has been published by Longreads, The Outline, and SAND Journal. Her full-length plays have been produced in New York City, Brooklyn, and Hamilton, Ontario. She studied and performed improv at Magnet Theater and Upright Citizens Brigade, and studied acting and playwriting at The Barrow Group in New York. She has an art degree from Brooklyn College and an MFA in creative nonfiction from University of King’s College. She teaches creative writing at Wilfrid Laurier University in Brantford.
photos by Jono & Laynie Co.