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Allison's collections of poems and short stories, The Women Who Hate Me and Trash, gained recognition for her writing ability in the 1980s. Writing for Discovering Authors, Annmarie Pinarski says that the poems in The Women Who Hate Me "explore love, sexual desire, betrayal, and bitterness . . . weaving memory and metaphor together with specific experience." Trash, a collection of short stories that draw on childhood experiences, physical violence, poverty, class politics, and lesbian sexuality, won two Lambda Book Awards for lesbian fiction.
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