She incorporates material from a wide variety of sources including local and global news, lived experience, encounters with nature in her own rural back yard. Allison's varied educational background in cooking school, theatre, physical education, feminist theologies, and women's studies, strongly influences her art. An artisan, she loves sewing, growing food, and wild yeast bread baking. She has an MFA in Writing and Consciousness from California Institute of Integral Studies, and an applied Theatre Undergrad through U of T. She lives in Naramata, BC with her partner and a bunch of chickens. www.allisonrennie.ca