Alison Stine is a writer. Prior to NPQ, she was a staff writer at Salon where she covered culture. She has been a freelance reporter with The New York Times and a contributing editor at the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. Her awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship and the Studs Terkel Award for Media and Journalism. She holds a PhD in Nonfiction Writing from Ohio University, and is the author of several books of fiction, most recently Road Out of Winter, which won the Philip K. Dick Award, and Trashlands, longlisted for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, 100 Days in Appalachia, YES! and others.