Alisa Bohling is at work on a book about how her search for home and healing became a political education. You can read her literary work on Lit Hub and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Her writing has been supported by a residency at Art Farm and grants from the Idaho Commission on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Alexa Rose Foundation. Her journalism has appeared on Al Jazeera America, AlterNet, Truthout, and elsewhere and has been recognized for Excellence in Online Journalism by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. She holds an MFA from the University of California, Riverside and she teaches writing and research to college students in the Intermountain West. @alisabohling