Allie Tova Hirsch is a fiction writer and teaching artist originally from Northern Virginia. A graduate of the Oberlin College Writing Program and the Helen Zell Writers’ Program, she was the recipient of a Hopwood Award for novel writing and a post-graduate Zell Fellowship, as well as fellowships from the New York State Writers Institute, the Juniper Institute, and Grin City Collective. She was a 2015-2016 Artist in Residence at InsideOut in Detroit. She currently teaches at the Stamps School of Art in Design at the University of Michigan and the Osher Lifelong Learning Foundation.
From the Archives: “I have always felt that scientists don’t get written enough as real people”: Eileen Pollack and Allie Tova Hirsch discuss sex scenes, melodrama, and Eileen’s novel A Perfect Life.
