Allie Marini is a Florida woman, cross-genre writer, visual artist, maker, and tarot reader.

She holds degrees from Antioch University of Los Angeles and New College of Florida, and is a member of the Horror Writers Association (HWA), American Literary Translators Association, and the Tarosophy Tarot Association.

Allie has been a finalist for Best of the Net and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her masthead credits include Lunch Ticket, Spry Literary Journal & Mojave River Review. n addition to her work on the page, Allie was a member of Oakland’s 2017 National Slam Team.

She has published a number of chapbooks, including Pictures from the Center of The Universe (Paper Nautilus, winner of the Vella Prize) and Southern Cryptozoology: A Field Guide to Beasts of the Southern Wild (Hyacinth Girl Press, finalist for the SFPA’s Elgin Award.)