Allison Lindsey Faris is a native Oregonian and has called Portland home for the majority of her life. As a student at Portland State University, she finds inspiration in 19th century Romantic French poetry and most modern and post-modern anglophone authors. She has been published willy-nilly in Portland State’s student-run literary magazine, Pathos, as well as the Portland State publishing program’s literary journal, Irreverent Fish. She doesn’t write nearly as much as she ought to.