Alison McMahan is an award-winning screenwriter, filmmaker, and author. She has trudged through the jungles of Honduras and Cambodia, through the favelas of Brazil and from race tracks to drag strips in the U.S. in search of footage for her documentaries.Her most recent film is Bare Hands and Wooden Limbs (2010), about a village of landmine survivors in Cambodia, narrated by Sam Waterston.
She's the author of two non-fiction books. Alice Guy Blaché, Lost Visionary of the Cinema (Bloomsbury 2002), won two awards, was translated into Spanish, adapted into a play, and the film rights sold to the Pic Agency for the documentary, BE NATURAL. The
Films of Tim Burton: Animating Live Action in Hollywood (Bloomsbury 2005).
Her historical mystery novel for Young Adults, The Saffron Crocus (Black Opal Books, 2014), won the Rosemary Award for Best YA Historical in 2014 and the Florida Writers Association's Royal Palm Literary Award in 2015. Her short mystery "The New Score" appeared in the Fish Out of Water Anthology (Wildside Press), and "The Drive By" in the Busted anthology (LevelBest Books), both April 2017, both nominated for Derringer Awards. “Kamikaze Iguanas” appeared in the MWA anthology for middle grade readers entitled Scream and Scream Again, edited by R.L. Stine, (HarperCollins, 2018) and "King Hanuman" in a SinCLA anthology by Down & Out Books for 2019. She is represented by Gina Panettieri of Talcott Notch Literary. www.AlisonMcMahan.com
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