Allie Talavera (she, her, hers) recently graduated from Marymount Manhattan College in New York with a Bachelor of Arts. Currently, Allie’s an MFA candidate at the University of California Riverside while serving as the managing editor for The Coachella Review Literary Magazine. While she has been trained in playwriting, her skills include poetry and memoir. Her writing aims to submerge readers in underlying themes of sexuality, gender, and religion.