I stood inside the Denver airport train beside my friend Sal, unsteady on my feet while on a train that was taking us in the wrong direction, far away from our connecting flight to Portland.
Author
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Jason Allen’s debut novel, The East End, was published in 2019 with HarperCollins/Park Row Books. His poetry collection, A Meditation on Fire, was published by Southeast Missouri State University Press in 2016, and he has published essays with Salon, Literary Hub, and The Strand Magazine. Jason has an MFA from Pacific University and a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from Binghamton University, and he now teaches creative writing in the MFA program at Wichita State University and lives in Kansas with his sweet rescue dog, Luna.