Allyson Jacob is a storyteller.

Novels and plays.

Writing, directing, and acting.

They’re all about telling a story.

Allyson Jacob is an educator, technical writer and editor, journalist, and playwright–turned-novelist. Her bylined and ghost-written articles have been published in the Cincinnati Enquirer, CityBeat, Northern Virginia magazine, and a host of trade publications. Her plays for adults have received staged readings with both Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative and the Open Door Theatre (NC), while her plays for young audiences have been produced on Cincinnati stages. Recently, she wrote two pieces for the Playwrights Race, a 24-hour short play festival hosted by the Human Race Theatre Company in Dayton, OH.

When not crafting elaborate worlds based on the off-the-page lives of Shakespearean heroines and villains, Allyson spends some of her free time acting and directing with her local theatre community. She has two grown children and lives in Ohio with her husband and adorably mischievous dog named Delilah.