Alyssa Striplin was pulled from the mud of the Missouri River and raised in Truman’s hometown. She is an MFA graduate from Minnesota State University, Mankato, a Composition Instructor at Missouri Western State University, and a Cancer. She is obsessed with many thing–mainly cryptids, astrology, and Godzilla.
Alyssa has stories and essays in The Molotov Cocktail, Blue River Review, Midwestern Gothic, and Bull: Men’s Fiction.