Alison McGhee: Hello. My name is Alison McGhee. That is Alison McGhee, not McGay-hee, not McJee, not McGee-hee, but McGhee. As you can see, a lot of people tend to mispronounce my last name, but there is only one person in the world who mispronounces my first name. He mispronounces it like this:

Allohson. Who might that one person in the world be? Well, it happens to be my very own father. Yes, my father, Donald McGhee, has never quite pronounced his own daughter's name correctly. Instead of saying "Alison," he says, "Allohson." And as you can imagine, I love to hear him say that.