About

Born in 1985, Alison Lee lived from age four to age ten in a house that was reportedly haunted. Raised on the "holy trinity" of Murder She Wrote, Unsolved Mysteries, and Matlock by her mystery-loving mother, she started preschool at age two and was ready for college at fifteen. She has lived in Pennsylvania, New York, Florida, and Maine.

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Alison was severely bullied as a child, and created the fictional world of Cryptesia in high school-- a dystopian country where the government's mission was to protect and reward the good by locking up the bad, presumably making it the best place on Earth to live-- although, in reality, very few are protected and rewarded. The years she spent "building" Cryptesia helped her sharpen her love of writing, and she eventually finished her first novel at age 20.

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Quiet and reserved in real life, Alison has quite a passion for performing, and has been on the stage in some capacity or another since age three. At 11, she became a professional actress with a role in the feature film Contact. She performed in shows such as Mame, Oklahoma, 42nd Street, and Guys and Dolls before retiring from show business for good at age 17. Later she took up pageants, and eventually became National Ms. American Women of Service in 2019. Her pageant platform, Kid Packs for America, gives students who rely on school meals as their main source of nourishment access to healthy food for extended school breaks.

 

Today, Alison works as a teacher, a novelist, and a pageant director and coach. She divides her time between Maine and Pennsylvania, and prefers to keep her personal life private. In her spare time, she enjoys cooking, ballet, reading, movies, fashion styling, and Star Wars critters. To date, she has written five novels-- all set in the fictional country of Cryptesia.