Allissa Oldenberg

Writing is something I have always enjoyed, whether first story attempts as a child, or poetry filled with angst as a young adult, or short stories as a student. Novels were not something I attempted until the Covid pandemic, when I produced four and a half of them. I have since completed the fifth and written another three.

In many ways, my fictional narrator, Helen, who is present in all my novels, is an extension of myself, although much of her life is also a product of my creative imagination.

Finding time to write alongside a full-time job can be tricky, especially as I also like to walk the dog, watch movies, listen to progressive rock, play chess, visit family, and spend as much time as I can doing up a house in France. Promoting and maintaining a public presence for the novels I have published, as well as querying agents and submitting to traditional publishers with the ones as yet unpublished, also takes up a huge slice of time.

Having spent my childhood and teenage years in Kent, I left home to go to university in Nottingham. Studies included French and critical theory. After graduating I spent many years living and working in Nottingham before moving down to Devon. It’s now eleven years that I have called Okehampton home.

Married, I have two adult children and am now also a besotted grandmother.