Jamie Alliotts is an award-winning writer and photographer from Oradell, New Jersey. His dramatic works have been produced at The Brooklyn Lyceum; The Southern Rep; the University of New Orleans; and online, as part of One Minute Play Festival's rapid-response event, Live from the Anarchist Jurisdiction. Alliotts's one-act, “A Waltz Between,” won the 19th-annual Tennessee Williams-New Orleans Literary Festival playwriting award. His drama, fiction, poetry, personal essays, immersion journalism, and photography appear in nearly a dozen literary journals: Mouth, Bayou, Cleaver, Smoky Quartz, Star 82 Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. Alliotts has studied world literature and creative writing at Columbia University, Dartmouth College, the University of Iowa, and the University of Oxford (UK).