Alison McMahan
Alison McMahan is a native of Los Angeles, California, but grew up in Mexico and Spain. She is an award-winning screenwriter, filmmaker, and author. Her films include the documentary Bare Hands and Wooden Limbs (2010), about landmine survivors in Cambodia, narrated by Sam Waterston. Her books include a critical study of the work of the first woman filmmaker, Alice Guy Blaché, Lost Visionary of the Cinema (Bloomsbury 2002), translated into Spanish and Japanese, adapted as a play by La Recua Teatro in Toledo, Spain (2012) and adapted into the documentary, Be Natural, by Pamela Green (2018). Her short mysteries have been anthologized by Level Best Books, Wildside Press, Down-and-Out Books, ThrillRide magazine, Open Road Media, and in the Scream and Scream Again middle-grade horror anthology edited by R.L. Stine for HarperCollins. She’s a two-time Derringer finalist and an "Other Distinguished Mystery Stories" author, Best American Mystery Stories 2018. When not writing she teaches English as a Second Language and Spanish.
