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Alena Dillon

Alena Dillon
Alena Dillon is the author of Mercy House, a Library Journal Best Book of 2020, which has been optioned as a Paramount+ television series produced by Amy Schumer, The Happiest Girl in the World, and My Body Is A Big Fat Temple, a memoir of pregnancy and early parenting.


The Challenge of Fictionalizing Sexual Assault

Alena Dillon on Writing About USA Gymnastics
April 22, 2021  By Alena Dillon
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Nuns Can Party, Too: On Defying Expectations of Piety

Alena Dillon Confronts the Stereotypes of Life in the Holy Orders
February 10, 2020  By Alena Dillon
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