Alison Bass is an award-winning journalist and the author of three nonfiction books: Side Effects: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial (2008); Getting Screwed, Sex Workers and the Law (2015); and Brassy Broad: How one journalist helped pave the way to #MeToo (2021). Side Effects received the prestigious National Association of Science Writers’ Science in Society Award and its film rights have been optioned. 

Bass recently retired as Associate Professor of Journalism at West Virginia University. She was a long-time staff writer for The Boston Globe and a series she wrote for The Globe was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in the Public Service category. Her articles and essays have also appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The Intercept, Buzzfeed, Psychology Today, and numerous other media. For more on her credentials, please visit her website at www.alison-bass.com. 

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