Allison Maschhoff

Allison Maschhoff is a St. Louis fiction writer who loves to dabble in nonfiction, poetry and multimodal storytelling. Her writing has been published in The MacGuffin, Across the Margin, South Broadway Press and more. For a full list of Allison’s publications, click here.

Allison is also an English Instructor at St. Louis Community College, Florissant Valley.

I’m currently reading The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

It’s been 12 years since middle-school-me read this young adult classic about Death’s obversations of a little girl growing up in Nazi Germany. Reading it as an adult, I’m still amazed by the incredible narration and depth of Zusak’s story

My Creative Projects

  • Listen Now, Read Later

    Looking to grow your TBR? Welcome to Listen Now, Read Later, the podcast that leads you to your next favorite novel by reading you short stories. Each episode, we’ll show connections between stories written by different authors from different places at different times— and we’ll use those connections to help you find exciting new books to read so that after you Listen Now, you can Read Later.

  • Novel in Progress

    I’ll soon begin querying agents regarding my MFA thesis, After Ever After, a young adult dystopian fantasy.

    Twenty years after a revolution transformed the Enchanted Forest into a one-party state, sixteen-year-old Mildred “Red” Little is facing the death penalty for the crimes of heroic action and magic use.