Roberta Allen, author of eight books and more than 200 works of short fiction, has been making conceptual art for over 50 years. Globally exhibited, her art is in the collections of the Met, MOMA, and the Cooper Hewitt. In my 2021 interview with her she explains that her earliest writing was about her art. That art, which explores the nature of mind and human connections, the subjectivity of perception and fact, is paradoxical, philosophical, and, not least, humorous. Allen also tells of how she fled a dreadful, unsupportive home life for Europe at 19 and the creative success she found there.