Allison King is a software engineer by day and is now the debut author of The Phoenix Pencil Company. Her debut novel, selected as a Reese’s Book Club pick, follows a college freshman who uncovers her family’s secret magic that allows memories to be relived through Reforged pencils, leading her on a journey to recover her grandmother’s fading past. Blending generational saga with quiet fantasy, the novel explores the enduring power of memory, storytelling, and the ties that bind.
King’s short stories have appeared in Fantasy Magazine, Diabolical Plots, and LeVar Burton Reads, among others.
We asked her to answer our recurring My Reading Life Q&A so readers could get to know her and the books that shaped her life.
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