Alethea Black was born in Boston and graduated from Harvard in 1991. Her father was a mathematician, and for a long time, she believed her name, the Greek word for truth, was his way of tipping his cap to the idea of absolutes. Her first book, a short story collection called I Knew You’d Be Lovely.  Alethea is a three-time MOTH StorySLAM champion. https://aletheablack.com