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Hello, Asian American lit fans! My name is Allie Arend and I'm your new summer managing editor here at AALF. I'm a southern transplant from Arkansas to the desert of California's Inland Empire, where I'm working on a PhD in English at the University of California, Riverside. I love contemporary speculative fiction, and my PhD research focuses on sf that imagines more just worlds and how we can bring them into being, with theoretical touchstones in Black feminist theory, queer studies, and utopian studies, among others. It's hard to pick an all-time favorite book, but Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower is definitely a contender. I've just finished reading Susanna Clarke's Piranesi, which I really loved, and will be reading Tasha Suri's The Jasmine Throne next. I'm also in the process of getting a copyediting business off the ground and am thrilled to get to do some editing here as well.

Happy reading, and don't be a stranger!

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Hello there! My name is Jacob Ballew and I'll be the Fall 2020 administrator of this page. Currently, I'm an M.A. student in English at Fordham University in New York City, New York. This is my first time being here in New York actually. I'm from Southern California; most specifically, Riverside, a rather suburban town about an hour drive from Los Angeles. It was there where I got my B.A. in English from the University of California, Riverside and graduated Cum Laude c/o 2020. Previously, I've worked as an English/General Writing Tutor for the University of California, Riverside and the community city in the same city, Riverside Community College. I was doing that for three years, and throughout my employment, I gained a passion for editing and revisions. I have to admit, I'm more of an editor than a writer. However, writing will always be all the rage for me especially when I'm tackling an awesome topic.