Alyssa Sheinmel

Alyssa Sheinmel is the New York Times bestselling author of several novels for young adults, including The Castle School (for Troubled Girls), What Kind of Girl , A Danger to Herself and Others, and Faceless . Her adult debut, Such Sheltered Lives , is forthcoming from Emily Bestler Books in Spring 2026, and her next YA novel, How the Goode Girls Died , is coming Fall 2026.

Alyssa grew up in Northern California and New York, and attended Barnard College. She currently lives and writes in New York.