Christiane Joy Allison is an author/activist from Wasilla, Alaska, with half a dozen beautiful nephews and nieces who inspire her writing of award-winning children's picture books. She also writes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and spiritual works. Her dystopian cyberpunk series explores characters who share her disability with hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. She is a Rasmuson Foundation 2018 Individual Artist Project Award recipient and a 2018 Lin Halterman Memorial Grant recipient. She has an MBA in Management & Strategy through Western Governors University and a BA in Journalism & Public Communications from the University of Alaska Anchorage. She spends her days: writing, fighting for the exoneration of her wrongfully convicted spouse, and advocating for criminal justice reform.