Allison King is an Asian American writer and software engineer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In technology, her work has ranged from semiconductors to platforms for community conversations to data privacy. Her short stories have appeared in Fantasy Magazine, Diabolical Plots and LeVar Burton Reads, among others. She is a 2023 Reese’s Book Club LitUp fellow. THE PHOENIX PENCIL COMPANY is her first novel.

Books by Allison King

The Phoenix Pencil Company

by Allison King - Fiction

In this dazzling debut novel, a hidden and nearly forgotten magic --- of Reforging pencils, bringing the memories they contain back to life --- holds the power to transform a young woman’s relationship with her grandmother and to mend long-lost connections across time and space.