Aly Welch lives in Western New York with her husband, author Mike X Welch, and their twin sons. When she isn’t writing, she enjoys acting, karate, and yoga. She also loves exploring the woods, and still hopes to find magic behind every tree and under every rock.
An earlier version of “Alpha” appeared in the Writing Bloc Deception anthology. It leads her personal story collection Silly Little Monsters. Other stories “The Patriarch” and “Just Desserts” can be found in the Writing Bloc Family (available now) and Mythos (May 31, 2023) anthologies.
Her debut novel was the urban fantasy A Better Me.
Fallen is out May 29, 2025 and marks a new era in the Masquerade series as familiar faces from the first three novels (A Better Me, Drama Queen, and Girl Next Door) return a couple years after the world-changing events of Girl Next Door.