Alison Robinson

Alison Robinson's love of story started onstage: acting and playwriting. After gaining her bachelor’s degree in theatre arts, She apprenticed at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (where, in between scenes of Henry VI, she sat backstage with a flashlight devouring the final book of the Harry Potter series). Eventually, she left the stage for something equally dramatic yet far more personal: a master’s degree in counseling. It was always her hope to write, and a few years into counseling, she turned her sights to novel writing. Throughout the process she has found within herself a well of experience, not in writing (that’s taken years of practice!), but in people. From dissecting a character in a script to accompanying a client as they plumb the depths of their own heart, I have spent my life entrenched in human stories. Making her home in Birmingham, Alabama, Alison lives among stacks of books with her husband, daughter, and an emotionally needy cat named Watson.