Alia Volz is a native daughter of San Francisco. Her writing is found in The Best American Essays 2017, Tin House, The New York Times, Threepenny Review, Nowhere Magazine, Utne Reader, New England Review and the recent anthologies Dig If You Will The Picture: Writers Remember Prince and Golden State 2017: Best New Writing from California. The Squaw Valley Community of Writers awarded her The Oakley Hall Memorial Scholarship twice. SF Weekly named her among “Best Writers without a Book in San Francisco.” To make up for that, she's currently working on a book.