Contributor

Alise D. Chaffins

Writer, speaker, musician, and defender of the Oxford comma. Author of ‘Embracing Grief’

Alise has been writing for as long as she can remember. Her first book, Embracing Grief, is a look at the way that grief can actually enhance our lives if we allow ourselves to feel it completely. She is the mom to six kids, nearly all of who are LGBTQ, and lives with them, her husband, and a pitbull in the hills of West Virginia.