Allie Marini (This Apiary) is a cross-genre Southern writer. In addition to her work on the page, Allie was a 2017 Oakland Poetry Slam team member & writes poetry, fiction, essays, performing in the Bay Area, where as a lifelong Floridian, she is always cold.








[Poetry] makes you stop & squint & not trample the flowers you hadn’t noticed because you were so focused on where you were going.