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Alethea Eason - William Eason

Alethea Eason is a writer, teacher and free-lance editor. Hungry, her humorous middle grade science fiction novel was published by HarperCollins in 2008. Would you eat your best friend if your parents told you to? That's Deborah's delimma. She's the only 6th grade alien on Earth, disguised by a human overskin, and pulled between her loyalty to her friend Willy and her family and species. Alethea has finished Starved, a sequel to Hungry.

Alethea has published stories in several anthologies for children including A Glory of Unicorns, edited by Bruce Coville, Stories have also appeared in New Moon Magazine and Shoo-Fly Audio Magazine. She also writes for adults and her work has been seen in Sweet Fancy Moses, Radiance, and Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, among others. She won the Eugene Ruggles Poetry Award, sponsored by The Dickens, a publication of Copperfiled Books of Sonoma and Napa Counties.

As a reading specialist, Alethea has taught grades kindergarten through eighth. She spent a year and a half at St. Margaret's British School for Girls in Concon, Chile where she worked in literacy in the junior school and as an IB English teacher at the senior school. She is employed now at Minnie Cannon Elementary School in Middletown, California.

Alethea has edited a number of novels, both for children and adults. She prides herself on working quickly and thoroughly, getting manuscripts back to clients as soon as possible. When working on a novel, she becomes invested in the book and does her best to hone it so that the best potential of the manuscript shines forth.

Alethea lives among the pines with her husband, Bill, and, Wiley, her red-tri Australian Shepherd on Cobb Mountain, Lake County, California.