Alysia Abbott presents in MassArt's Creative Writing Reading Series 

The Creative Writing Reading Series presents Alysia Abbottt, the author of Fairyland, A Memoir of My Father. Alysia Abbott is the author of <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://bookshop.org/p/books/fairyland-a-memoir-of-my-father-alysia-abbott/11174760?ean%3D9780393348903%26gclid%3DCj0KCQjw9fqnBhDSARIsAHlcQYS_eUAV6Qc0vzbWE-V0YSeVbwZf_q8cn-8H1js78XS0g5-PL13g-v0aAtcoEALw_wcB&amp;sa=D&amp;source=calendar&amp;ust=1703023206781269&amp;usg=AOvVaw27PS60bsptrZFXnZUgRLW-" target="_blank">Fairyland, A Memoir of My Father,</a> which was a New York Times Book Review&nbsp;Editors' Choice and an ALA Stonewall Award winner, a winner of the Madame Figaro Prix Heroine, and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards. In 2022, she was awarded an artist grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She grew up in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury, the only child of gay poet and writer,&nbsp;Steve Abbott. As a journalist, essayist, and critic,&nbsp;she's written for&nbsp;The Boston Globe, The Guardian, The New York Times,&nbsp;The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Vogue, Marie Claire, TheAtlantic.com, TriQuarterly and Psychology Today,&nbsp;among other publications.&nbsp;She holds an MFA in Creative Non-Fiction from New School University&nbsp;and was a contributing producer at WNYC Radio.&nbsp;Her first full-length book,&nbsp;Fairyland&nbsp;was completed with the help of a Ragdale Fellowship&nbsp;and the wonderful staff at W.W.&nbsp;Norton and was made into a feature film in 2023. She's presented Fairyland&nbsp;at bookstores, libraries, literary festivals and universities across the United States and in France, as well as on NPR's Weekend Edition,&nbsp;Fresh Air, The Brian Lehrer Show,&nbsp;KQED's Forum, and the BBC's Outlook, among other venues. The French edition of Fairyland was published by Edition Globe on March 12, 2015 with a series of events in Paris. Additionally, the book has been translated into Italian, Spanish, Polish, and Portuguese.

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