Autumn Allen

Autumn is an educator, a writer, an editor and a reviewer of books for children and young adults, and an independent scholar of children's literature. She holds an MA-MFA in children's literature and writing for children from Simmons, a master's degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she studied cultural psychology, and a B.A. in literature from Yale. Her graduate studies and her practice as an educator in community settings inform her interest in children's literature as a tool of cultural transmission and as a potential site of cultural transformation.