Alles, Colleen: - Colleen Alles is a native Michigander and writer living in West Michigan. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in The Michigan Poet, Red Cedar Review, Peninsula Poets, The Write Michigan 2016 Anthology, and elsewhere. Her chapbooks include So What to Say to a Bird, Porch Light to the Longshoreman, and Three Stars. Her first novel, Skinny Vanilla Crisis, was published in 2020.