About Alison Fishburn
writing, performing and community organizing
Born and raised in Florida. Running away ever since.
“I’d rather die trying than die waiting.”
ALISON FISHBURN is a Puschart-nominated writer, playwright, performer, and community organizer living in Paris, Ontario. She has written plays since 2009, self-producing three full length plays in New York City, directing one. Her theater background also includes studying & performing improv at Magnet Theater and Upright Citizens Brigade, and studying acting and playwriting at The Barrow Group.
She has an art degree from Brooklyn College and an MFA in creative nonfiction from University of King’s College.
Her writing has been published by Longreads, The Outline, and SAND Journal (Issue 24). Her flash creative nonfiction essay “Safety” was nominated by SAND for The Pushcart Prize.
In 2022, she launched Riverside Reading Series, a monthly reading series in Paris to support local writers of all ages and professional levels.
She is currently writing a memoir about her younger sister’s unexpected death in 2013. She will be performing her next play, CHURCH BOYFRIENDS & OTHER IMPURE THOUGHTS, a solo performance, during the 2023 Hamilton Fringe Festival.
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