Alle C. Hall is an author, speaker, and writing instructor whose work focuses on the joy and creativity resulting from trauma recovery. With 35+ years of healing from childhood abuse, Alle was sober for 27 years, had one bastard of a slip, and has been sober since then. She is in even longer-term recovery from compulsive overeating and bulimia, as well as sexual anorexia. Hall's debut novel, As Far as You Can Go Before You Have to Come Back, has been honored fifteen times since publication. Her award-winning fiction and essays appear in Dale Peck's Evergreen Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Litro, New World Writing, Creative Nonfiction, and elsewhere. Her journalism can be read in Bust Magazine, The Seattle Times, Seattle Weekly, and The Stranger, for whom she was a contributing writer. Hall lives in Seattle with her much-loved husband and two, shining sons.