Alisa Bohling is at work on a book about how her search for home and healing became a political education. Her literary work appears on Lit Hub and the Los Angeles Review of Books and has been supported by grants from the Idaho Commission on the Arts and the Alexa Rose Foundation and by a residency at Art Farm.
Alisa is a former reporter and editor at Truthout whose journalism has also appeared on Al Jazeera America and AlterNet and has been twice cited by Project Censored. Her reporting on the profiling of trans people at airport security was recognized for excellence by the Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists and is cited in scholarly books on gender identity.
Alisa holds an MFA from UC Riverside and she teaches literary nonfiction, medical narratives, and researched composition to community college students in the Mountain West—Shoshone, Bannock, and Northern Paiute land.
