Painter, filmmaker, and spoken word performance artist, Bonnie MacAllister "reveals the structure of fragments, decoding illicit meaning in elicitly abstract poses." West Philadelphia resident MacAllister has been published on three continents and has performed at over sixty venues including the Wilma Theatre and the Adrienne Theatre.

Bonnie MacAllister still hasn't told her stories to herself. Her work has appeared most recently by the Feminist Journal, Paper Tiger Media in Brisbane, Australia; New York City’s Small Spiral Notebook, Magnaphone, www.hingeonline.com, www.venuszine.com, Ireland’s www.deaddrunkdublin.com, Amherst Press, University of Judaica Press, Seventeen Magazine, The Doylestown Patriot.

A five-time slam champion, she has delivered her deconstructed breath verse at over forty venues including Robin's Book Store (Women's Spoken Word Series, Verve Poetry Series), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Friends Meeting Center (Verve Poetry Series), Philadelphia Ethical Society (Fringe Festival), Town Hall (Chevy Chase, MD), Bryn Mawr College, Slam champion at Cat Cat Club (Paris, France), Princeton University, Bordentown Poetry Slam, 4-time champion at Great New Hope Poetry Slam, Bucks County Community College, Pebble Hill Church, Borders Book Store, Salon Salon, Fire and Ice (with After the Fact jazz band and where she ran workshops for high school poets), The Urban Word (Trenton, New Jersey), Prufrock Coffeehouse, Bubble House Tea House, Sahara Restaurant in Reading (with After the Fact), Chef Alan's Restaurant, Morgantown Public Library, Bucks County Free Library, Cafe Arielle, and the Doylestown Inn.

An independent film maker and oil painter, she is the Publicity and Membership Chair of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Women's Caucus for Art. She has most recently exhibited at Café Soleil, Zonk Arts Gallery, and will show in March at the Highwire Gallery with the Women’s Caucus for Art. Films which she has worked on have been visible at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Musée de la Mode in Paris, France.

She resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with her partner Victor Thompson and a slew of tortie cats.