Alysia Abbott
Alysia Abbott is the director of Boston’s first-in-the-nation Literary District. A graduate of the New School’s Writing Program, she instructs memoir and essay at GrubStreet. She is also the author of the memoir Fairyland, named an Editors’ Choice by the New York Times, awarded the Prix de Madame Figaro, and now being made into a movie produced by Sofia Coppola.