Alisha Attella lives in Long Beach, California with her two blond children, one black dog, and one black cat. In their tiny apartment she reads books, scratches out poems and stories, raises-up the children, and talks with the animals about film, feminist theory, and space travel.She can currently be found scouring the dark places for 17 syllable terror as co-editor of the forthcoming Horror-Ku anthology to be published by Freeze-Ray Press in 2015. She formerly served as Managing Editor at Mojave River Press & Review and Cease, Cows, and her own work has been published in Lummox, East Jasmine Review, San Pedro River Review, Cadence Collective, and elsewhere.