People want biography. People want memoir. They want you to tell them that the story you're telling them is true. The thing I'm telling you is true, but it did not always happen to me.

In 2007 Allison announced that Dorothy Allison was working on a new novel She Who to be publiDorothy Allisond by Riverhead Press. Harris told her to be "honest and fearless especially when writing about lesbianism". In the early 1980s Allison met Lorde at a poetry reading.

She has won a number of awards for her writing including several Lambda Literary Awards. Dorothy Allison (born April 11 1949) is an American writer speaker and member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. She is a self-identified lesbian femme.