Alyson Shelton is an award winning screenwriter and essayist. Her writing is widely published at outlets including The New York Times, Ms. and The Rumpus. She’s anthologized in No Contact: Writers on Estrangement, Root Cause: Stories of Health, Harm and Reclaiming Our Humanity, Comics Lit: Vol. 1, Spell Check: Lessons Learned from Screwing Up Words and The Loss of a Lifetime: Grieving Siblings Share Stories of Love, Loss, and Hope (Contributor and Co-Editor). She’s best known for her Instagram Live series inspired by George Ella Lyon’s poem, Where I’m From, where she’s hosted over 250 writers. This is her first book for teen readers.
