Alena Dillon is the author of MERCY HOUSE, a Library Journal Best Book of 2020; THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD, a "Good Morning America" pick; MY BODY IS A BIG FAT TEMPLE, a memoir of pregnancy and early parenting; and EYES TURNED SKYWARD, her latest novel.

Alena’s work has appeared in publications including The Daily Beast, LitHub, River Teeth, Slice Magazine, The Rumpus and Bustle.

She teaches creative writing and lives on the north shore of Boston with her husband, children, black lab and lots of books.

Books by Alena Dillon

Mercy House

by Alena Dillon - Fiction, Women's Fiction

Inside a century-old row house in Brooklyn, renegade Sister Evelyn and her fellow nuns preside over a safe haven for the abused and abandoned. Little daunts Evelyn, until she receives word that Mercy House will be investigated by Bishop Hawkins, a man with whom she shares a dark history.