QUICK FIRE Allyson Horton is a native of Indianapolis, Indiana. She received her MFA from Butler University. Her poetry has been published in the anthology Turn the Page and You Don't Step! Sharing Successful Chapters in Our Lives with Youth, Not like the Rest of Us: An Anthology of Contemporary Indiana Writers, The Indianapolis Review and It Was written: Poetry Inspired by Hip Hop. Her work also appears in Brilliant Flame! and Not Our President. Allyson currently resides and teaches In Indiana.