Allyson Shaw is an award-winning poet, she is author of The Bon-bon and Love Token, a Powell’s poetry best-seller. With Edith Abeyta she is co-author of Salty: Three Tales of Sorrow. Much of her fiction and poetry has appeared in anthologies and literary journals. She lives in London where she knits, brews beer and writes while trying not to lose her Californian by-way-of-the-Midwest accent.