Noelle Catharine Allen has worked as a freelance journalist in Buenos Aires and Mexico City, and now lives in Seattle, where she primarily writes fiction. Her short stories have appeared in numerous publications, including Otis Nebula, Phoebe, and Hunger Mountain. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Hunger Mountain, and won the Editor’s Choice award in the publication Best New Writing. She is currently working on a series of novels. Her chapbook, Woman, Wolf, Carbon Capture, was selected as the winner of the Fall 2024 Black River Chapbook Competition and is forthcoming from BLP in Fall 2026.