A.M. Alcedo

A.M. Alcedo is a MSW, CSW, and licensed therapist with specialty training in trauma recovery. She adores the mental health field and the sacred space she’s permitted to hold for her clients. Much like Norah Kestrel, A.M. Alcedo has also found healing, hope, and power through grief, loss, and pain. Of the Stars orbits vulnerable characters and a raw hope that A.M. Alcedo very much needed when she was young, thus why her debut novel is written in solidarity for those who have survived loss and isolation. Of the Stars is a love letter to honor their story. It's to remind them that they are not alone, they are not forgotten, and that they and their voices matter.

Ava Mae is a wife to the kindest man in the galaxy and a mother to Pancake the calico and countless house plants. She is a lover of Puh’erh tea, anything matcha flavored, birdwatching with binoculars, illustrating, hiking to waterfalls, and getting new tattoos. Above all else, she feels her Purpose is to hold space for the sacred stuff of others.