Alyssa Toohey

Alyssa Toohey is a Hudson Valley resident living her life through books and art. She graduated from SUNY New Paltz with an MA in English, a BS in Visual Arts with a Minor in Theater Design, as well as a BA in English Creative Writing. She always wanted to teach art and loves to meet new people. Her favorite past times include picking up shells on the beach or spending time in her library that holds over five thousand books. She hopes to spread her writing wings as well as her artist’s wings in the world of children’s and teen books as an illustrator and writer someday soon. She lives with her husband and their five cats.