ALYSE ANDREE
“I am a writer currently residing in New York City, where I achieved a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at The New School. My work is deeply informed by my formative years immersed in the performing arts as a competitive dancer in Ontario, Canada. With a sensibility shaped by movement, discipline, and aesthetic expression, I draw inspiration from emotionally evocative narratives that illuminate the shared vulnerabilities and inner truths of the human condition. My creative and intellectual interests extend into the realms of film, fashion, and performance, through which I explore how visual and narrative art forms reflect and challenge the philosophical dimensions of human experience. Much of my writing is shaped by the interiority of womanhood; its quiet tensions, contradictions, and the elusive beauty of coming of age in a world that watches back.”
WRITTEN WORKS
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Birdie (FULL STORY)
PUBLISHED Mar 6, 2026
Artwork: "Morning Sun" by Rich Lo | Greatsketch, all rights reserved.
A haunting literary short story about a sensitive farm boy and his bond with a chick named Birdie, exploring trauma, masculinity, and the devastating cost of growing up in a world that punishes softness.
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Birdie (Part 1 of 5)
PUBLISHED Jan 9, 2026
Artwork: "Morning Sun" by Rich Lo | Greatsketch, all rights reserved.
From birth to the moment of their slaughter, most chickens bred for meat only live about 45 days. These birds, raised to die, have colloquially come to be known as “broilers.” But Amos, a little boy from Fargo, North Dakota, called his chick by a name more tenderhearted.
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We Were Together
PUBLISHED Oct 17, 2025
Artwork: “four flowers” by Kirk Stansbury.
The blue, sun-bleached welcome sign off Highway 1 claimed we had 6,174 people. I haven't seen more than eight in the last three years.
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"I Heard The Nightingale Sing"
PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2025
Artwork: "Untitled" by Christina Moser, 2019.
Not a second of a bright winter morning can be missed.