Alison Gadsby

Alison Gadsby, writer

Alison Gadsby is a writer whose work appears in The Temz Review, The Ex-Puritan, Blue Lake Review, Coastal Shelf, Synchronized Chaos, and more. Her collection of short stories, BREATHING IS HOW SOME PEOPLE STAY ALIVE, will be published by Guernica Editions in 2026. She holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia, and a degree in English Literature and Creative Writing from York University. She hosts Junction Reads, a prose reading series, in Toronto, where she lives in a multigenerational home that includes four dogs.

Everything was Fine Before Lisa Got Here — Volume 9, Issue 2

Alison Gadsby offers a poignant exploration of grief, jealousy, and displaced anger in her story Everything was Fine Before Lisa Got Here, as a young girl grapples with her father’s death while fixating on a new classmate who threatens her imagined connection with her teacher and forces her to confront her unprocessed emotions.