A.S. Mackey's award-winning debut middle grade fiction novel was released May 12, 2020, published by Lifeway/B&H Publishing. Allison earned her bachelor’s degree in English Literature from the University of Georgia in 1991. During her senior year at UGA, she was a reporter and copy editor for the Oglethorpe Echo newspaper in Lexington, GA. From 1992-1993 she was a regular humor column contributor in the quarterly independent musicians' magazine Visions of Gray, writing under the pen name of Uncle Earl. Allison is also a musician, and she wrote and recorded an original eleven-song CD in 2003 titled You’ve Waited Long Enough. Mrs. Mackey has written multiple children’s stories on a contract basis with Tiny Readers Publishing in Houston (the NoMeLoMe series). She has also authored several non-fiction ESL books for young children with Norwegian ESL app designer Sigbjørn Dugal (Pickatale). She loves to cook, and a recipe she helped develop with her identical twin sister Nanci is included in the 2017 edition of "The Old Farmer’s Almanac Readers’ Best Recipes and the Stories Behind Them." She has also created web content for dozens of international websites through Upwork/Odesk. A.S. Mackey was formerly represented by agent Elizabeth Bennett at the Transatlantic Literary Agency. She lives in Florence, Alabama with her husband Chad, and she is the mother of three adult children, a son-in-law, and a cat named Penelope. Her novel The Edge of Everywhen won the Southern Christian Writers Conference 2021 Notable Book Award for Fiction, and was a finalist for the ACFW's Carol Award in the debut novel category.