M a r i a n A l l e n writes science fiction, fantasy, mystery, humor, horror, mainstream, and anything else she can wrestle into fixed form.
Allen has had stories in anthologies, on-line and print publications, including Oceans of the Mind and Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress anthologies 22 and 23, on coffee cans and the wall of an Indian restaurant in Louisville, Kentucky. She writes a daily food history column for Worldwide Recipes.com, The Best Darned Recipezine in the Whole Darned Universe.
Allen is a member of the Short Mystery Fiction Society, the Indiana Writers Connection, Murder Must Advertise, CozyWriters and of the Southern Indiana Writers Group, and is a regular contributor to the SIW's annual anthology. Sometimes she scrapes together enough pennies to treat herself to a membership in the Green River Writers, as well.