Allyson Olivia Ringgold is a native of Baltimore, MD, who resides in Miami, FL. Throughout her life she has always found comfort in writing. She started writing poetry and stories in elementary school because her imagination was too big to keep inside her mind. Lines of poetry, paragraphs in a short story or scenes for a film would come to her while she was sleeping or daydreaming. So she started writing in her journal. Her journal became a place of release. Her family nurtured her gift early and enrolled her in drama and writing summer camps.
Later, she pursued her interest in writing at Susquehanna University where she wrote for the school newspaper The Crusader and received a bachelor’s in mass communications. At Susquehanna University, she received staff awards for her articles. In addition, she received the 2001 Broadcast Student of the year award. Her articles often stirred the campus community. She wrote articles that delved into the delicate issue of diversity, and as a result of her articles, improvements were made on campus. Whether she was venting about dorm issues or the lack of appeal in the Campus radio station, her writing got results.
She continued to develop her craft at Syracuse University where she received a master’s in journalism. At Syracuse University, her essay on Harriet Tubman was featured in the capstone magazine project, Due North.
Allyson could never let her passion for telling stories go, because writing pursued her. She was often awakened with scenes for a story or lines for a poem and until she put it on paper, she couldn’t get the thought out of her head. Throughout her ups and downs in life, she relied on her faith in God to carry her through every circumstance, but after the drama died down, the tears dried or the triumph took place, she wrote it down.
Her first novel, In The Name of the Father, is about a woman’s struggle to love herself, allow herself to be loved, and keep her faith in God despite what she witnessed in her home and in the church. In the name of the Father has a dual meaning, it represents the main character being influenced by her biological father and her heavenly father. Her passion for telling the story about a woman’s struggle to love herself, her man and her God comes from her soul.
Allyson was one of those kids who spent all day in church on Sunday, and was there at least three days during the week. She was a member of the usher board, youth choir and AWANA club just to name a few. Some of her best memories happened in church. As a result of growing up in church, all of Allyson’s writing has a religious undertone. A woman of faith, Allyson knows how the pains of life can push you to places you never thought you would go. It is the everyday struggles of believers and the process of growing in Christ and failing in your flesh that she illustrates in her writing.
Allyson also has a passion for helping teenage girls and women achieve their goals and understand they were placed on this earth for a purpose. She hopes every person will realize that apart from God they can do nothing, but with God anything is possible.
Later, she pursued her interest in writing at Susquehanna University where she wrote for the school newspaper The Crusader and received a bachelor’s in mass communications. At Susquehanna University, she received staff awards for her articles. In addition, she received the 2001 Broadcast Student of the year award. Her articles often stirred the campus community. She wrote articles that delved into the delicate issue of diversity, and as a result of her articles, improvements were made on campus. Whether she was venting about dorm issues or the lack of appeal in the Campus radio station, her writing got results.
She continued to develop her craft at Syracuse University where she received a master’s in journalism. At Syracuse University, her essay on Harriet Tubman was featured in the capstone magazine project, Due North.
Allyson could never let her passion for telling stories go, because writing pursued her. She was often awakened with scenes for a story or lines for a poem and until she put it on paper, she couldn’t get the thought out of her head. Throughout her ups and downs in life, she relied on her faith in God to carry her through every circumstance, but after the drama died down, the tears dried or the triumph took place, she wrote it down.
Her first novel, In The Name of the Father, is about a woman’s struggle to love herself, allow herself to be loved, and keep her faith in God despite what she witnessed in her home and in the church. In the name of the Father has a dual meaning, it represents the main character being influenced by her biological father and her heavenly father. Her passion for telling the story about a woman’s struggle to love herself, her man and her God comes from her soul.
Allyson was one of those kids who spent all day in church on Sunday, and was there at least three days during the week. She was a member of the usher board, youth choir and AWANA club just to name a few. Some of her best memories happened in church. As a result of growing up in church, all of Allyson’s writing has a religious undertone. A woman of faith, Allyson knows how the pains of life can push you to places you never thought you would go. It is the everyday struggles of believers and the process of growing in Christ and failing in your flesh that she illustrates in her writing.
Allyson also has a passion for helping teenage girls and women achieve their goals and understand they were placed on this earth for a purpose. She hopes every person will realize that apart from God they can do nothing, but with God anything is possible.