Mary Alice Dixon lives in Charlotte, NC, where she is a hospice volunteer, former professor, and happy member of Charlotte Writers Club and Charlotte Lit. She is a Pushcart nominee, Pinesong Award winner, Broad River Review Rash Award in Poetry finalist, and LIT/south fiction finalist. Her work appears in the PSPP anthologies That Southern Thing, Trouble, and Curious Stuff and is in, or forthcoming from, Amethyst Review, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Kakalak, Main Street Rag, moonShine review, Mythic Circle and elsewhere. Mary Alice collects hats, mysteries, and houseplants.