Alyson Grauer is a writer, actor, podcaster, and tabletop gamer. She studied theatre and history at Loyola University of Chicago. Together she and her husband have formed the duo Whimsy & Artifice, which produces the ongoing project Warda. Her writing has been published in the Parsec Award-winning podcast anthology Tales from the Archives for the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, as well as in anthologies from Xchyler Publishing. Her first novel, On the Isle of Sound and Wonder was published in 2014.

Currently she and her husband Drew are based out of Orlando, FL, where they live with their two cats, Queen Felicia and Wedge.