Alysia Abbott is the author of Fairyland, A Memoir of My Father, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, an ALA Stonewall Award winner, and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Lit Hub, and Vogue and her family story has been featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition, Here & Now, Fresh Air, and the BBC. FAIRYLAND, a new feature film based on her memoir and starring Emilia Jones, Scoot McNairy and Geena Davis is screening at PIFF 2023.