Alison Louise Hubbard.

Alison Louise Hubbard’s historical novel, THE KELSEY OUTRAGE, will be published by Black Rose Writing in 2024. Her short story, Wildflowers, was published in The Saturday Evening Post in 2022, and her story, Belladonna, won the Slippery Elm Prize for Prose and was published in the 2021 print edition.

Before writing novels and short stories, Hubbard had a long career as a musical theatre lyricist in New York. Her shows, which have been seen in productions and tours across the county, include THE SECRET GARDEN, LITTLE WOMEN, BUDDY’S TAVERN and THE ENCHANTED COTTAGE; publications include THE COP AND THE ANTHEM, LITTLE WOMEN and PETS!

Hubbard’s work has garnered many industry prizes, notably two Richard Rodgers Awards, given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters (LITTLE WOMEN and BUDDY’S TAVERN). A co-winner of the $100,000 Kleban Award, she has been an Artist-in-Residence at The O’Neill National Music Theatre Conference and the New Harmony Project. THE ENCHANTED COTTAGE was featured in the National Alliance For Musical Theatre.

Hubbard is a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, The Dramatists Guild and the Author’s Guild. She received a Bachelor of Music from the Crane School of Music at Potsdam, NY, and a Masters from SUNY at Stony Brook. She teaches flute in her private studio on Long Island.