Alison hails from the frigid north (AKA Minnesota) where she spent her formative years playing soccer and acting in plays both in community theater and professionally. She liked the Twin Cities enough to stick around for college and studied anthropology, studio art, and art history.
After spending graduate school interning at museums all over San Francisco and working at the California Academy of Sciences, she decided the museum world was not for her. So she embarked on the next chapter of her life following her Roman historian husband on his academic meanderings. This has taken her around Europe, including summers as an object photographer at a dig site in Greece and a year in Bulgaria working as an English teacher. Although she’ll miss the gluwein and good friends from her most recent stint in Germany, Alison is thrilled to be back stateside where she can more easily pursue her writing career.
Under the pen name “Phoebe Darqueling”, Alison had several short stories and novels published, as well as becoming a publisher herself through the Tainted Tincture imprint. Creative duldrums during Covid lockdowns threw her into the arms of screenwriting rather than prose and it was love at first fade in. In addition to writing several pilots and features on her own, Alison is a producer and writer with the World of Hood transmedia project. This gave her the opportunity to also try her had at audio drama, short film writing, copywriting, and video editing. The World of Hood will start releasing their collaborative novellas later this year, bringing Alison’s journey to a weird but fitting full circle moment about 10 years after picking up her pen again.
Alison Weaverdyck 