Allison Wright is the former executive editor and publisher of the Virginia Quarterly Review. Her writing has appeared in VQR, the Guardian, CNN, the Atlantic, Popular Mechanics, and elsewhere.
At national conferences, college talks, and other events, she has presented on several topics, including the representation of women in media, imposter syndrome, sports & media, adolescents in America, competitive cheerleading, the future of journal editing, socially conscious fiction, debut novels, and alternative-academic careers. Work she has edited has been honored with inclusion in several of the Best American series anthologies and has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award, among other prizes.
She holds a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, where she wrote a doctoral dissertation on the cultural history of cheerleading. While there, she taught courses on youth cultures, women in US history, American autobiography, classics of world poetry, and matrimony in America.
