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Allie Rowbottom

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Allie Rowbottom is the author of Jell-O Girls, a New York Times Editor’s Choice selection. Her essays and short fiction can be found in Vanity Fair, Salon, Best American Essays, Literary Hub, New York Tyrant, No Tokens, and elsewhere. She holds a PhD from the University of Houston and an MFA from CalArts and lives in LA, where she is at work on a novel about plastic surgery and Instagram.

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