Autumn McAlpin

A graduate of USC’s Master of Professional Writing and BYU's English Teaching programs, Autumn McAlpin is an award-winning writer, producer and director. Her feature films include Waffle Street (MarVista, 2015) and Miss Arizona (Cinedigm, 2018), and her stage play In Front of the Children won USC’s 2015 Writing for Stage and Screen Competition. Autumn penned The Orange County Register’s humor column “Cracking Up” for a decade and she is the author of the best-selling graduation gift book, Real World 101: A Survival Guide to Life After High School, and the recently released literary memoir, But Jesus: A Conversation. She currently writes the weekly family profile stories at Lift + Love, and she is actively engaged in Encircle, which provides safe spaces for LGBTQ+ youth. Autumn lives in southern California with her husband and five kids.