Alle C. Hall is an author, speaker, writing instructor, and community builder whose work focuses on the joy and creativity resulting from trauma recovery.

Alle is a compassionate yet challenging teacher, wide-ranging in knowledge while paying tight attention to details.

She is calm and supportive as well as high-spirited and funny.

Her favorite classes to teach involve giving writers the skills to continue their work at home as well as teaching them about the industry. Alle wants students to leave with a solid draft of a new piece as well as the knowledge of how to publish the piece they are working on.

Alle started as a journalist, having no professional training in creative writing or journalism. After three years, she branched out to fiction. She has taken many, many classes at Richard Hugo House in Seattle, but learned primarily from receiving peer feedback.

After living in Asia for three years in the late 1980s, Alle returned to the States, living in Seattle and publishing for years in magazines such as Dale Peck’s Evergreen Review, Tupelo Quarterly, New World Writing, Litro, Creative Nonfiction, and Another Chicago.

Her debut novel, As Far as You Can Go Before You Have to Come Back, is praised by National Book Award judge and New York Times best-selling author (Hotel on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet) Jamie Ford, as “a rare novel, an outstanding debut.” As Far as You Can Go Before … has been honored sixteen times; including first place in The National League of American Pen Women’s Mary Kennedy Eastham Prize for Flash Fiction, and finalist for The Lascaux Prize for Flash Fiction (both for excerpts). The novel hit two #1 Kindle spots: Literary Fiction and Coming-of-Age.

In 1988, Alle graduated from Northwestern University with a B.S. in the Analysis and Performance of Literature: adapting non-theatrical text for theatrical performance.

Her focus was the novel, short stories, and personal essay. Her senior project was a one hour, one person show of the writings of Joan Didion

After graduating, Alle spent three years in Japan teaching English, primarily to young adults.

Since 1989, Alle has grounded her life in a Tai chi practice that has shaped her attitude toward writing and publishing: stay calm, deal with what is, built castles in the air. Just don't live there.

Alle lives in Seattle with her beloved husband and two, shining sons.