Alle C. Hall's work focuses on the joy and creativity resulting from trauma recovery. Her debut novel, As Far as You Can Go Before You Have to Come Back, has been honored fifteen times; including first place in The National League of American Pen Women’s Mary Kennedy Eastham Prize for an excerpt, and most recently, longlisted for Book Viral’s Millennium Book Award. (Short list announced Dec 22, 2024.) Claim to fame: interviewed Leonard Nimoy. He was a bit of a pill; disappointing.