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Alison Espach

Alison Espach
Alison Espach is the author of the novels The Adults, a New York Times Editors' Choice and a Barnes & Noble Discover pick; Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance, which was named a best book of 2022 by the Chicago Tribune and NPR; and The Wedding People. Her short stories and essays have appeared in McSweeney’s, Vogue, Outside, Joyland, and other places. She is a professor of creative writing at Providence College in Rhode Island.


Clown School is Terrifying, But It Made Me a Better Writer

Alison Espach on Finding Her Inner Clown, Public Failure, and Interrogating Your Writing
July 30, 2024  By Alison Espach
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