Her new Alysse Aallyn is the author of four well-received thrillers, Find Courtney, Depraved Heart, WomanInto Wolf and I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead, one historical novel (Devlyn) and a book of short stories (Awake Till the End.) She has three published books of poetry – The Sacred Quiver, The Hot Skin and The Five Wounds and edited another (The Feathered Violin.) She trained in theatre at Circle in the Square Theatre School and Martha Graham School of Dance. She appeared in the part of Isabella in Jean Giraudoux’s The Enchanted at the New Yorker Theatre. She has held writing fellowships at Brooklyn College and LaSalle University. Her novel Depraved Heart won a 2011 CT Press Club fiction award and her play Queen of Swords was a semi-finalist in the 2014 National Arts Council First Play award. Woman Into Wolf was a semi-finalist for The National Playwrights Conference (2016). She has also appeared as a crime commentator on IV-TV’s Blood Relatives. Her play, Let’s Speak Vietnamesewas published in Dramatika Magazine. Other plays she’s written are The Honey & the Pang about Emily Dickinson’s posthumous career, Cuck’d– a modern Othello,and Caving, in which the theatre is transformed into a cave for a spelunking dare. Her latest play, Rough Sleep, (based on her novel I’ll Sleep When You’reDead) was produced by Manhattan Repertory Theatre (W. 45thSt) April 18, 19, 20, 2019. Her new book of poems, Dream, Wish, Imagine is due in 2021 from MidnightReaders.