About the Book
M3GAN is a marvel of artificial intelligence, a life-like doll programmed to be a child's greatest companion and a parent's greatest ally. Designed by brilliant toy-company roboticist Gemma, M3GAN can listen and watch and learn as she becomes friend and teacher, playmate and protector, for the child she is bonded to. As Gemma faces pressure at work to deliver a finished version of M3GAN, she suddenly becomes the unprepared caretaker of her newly orphaned 8-year-old niece, Cady. Gemma decides to pair the M3GAN prototype with Cady in an attempt to resolve both problems - a decision that will have unimaginable consequences.
About the Author
Guerrilla memoirist, essay writer, playwright and travel journalist, Allison Williams has written about race, culture and comedy for National Public Radio, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Prairie Schooner, Kenyon Review Online and Travelers' Tales. She currently serves as Social Media Editor for Brevity.
Her fiction has appeared in Crossed Genres, Smokelong Quarterly, Deep South and The Drum; her plays include the Heidemann Award finalist Miss Kentucky, scripts for NPR's All Ears Theatre, and the London Fringe Best Of Fringe winner, TRUE STORY.
She received her MFA from Western Michigan University and has been a teaching fellow at the Prague Summer Program and the Kenyon Writers Workshop (with Dinty W. Moore) , and an Associate Artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts with Rick Moody, Dani Shapiro and David Shields.
As a storyteller, Allison has performed at London's Theatre Royal and Rich Mix, Filocafe in Mumbai and The Kautilya Society in Varanasi, India, and is a twotime winner of The Moth StorySLAM. As a former aerialist and acrobat, she performed in 23 countries.
Home base is currently Dubai, where "The Pork Shop" is a separate, dimly-lit room at the back of the supermarket. It's like buying meat porn.
Find her at www.idowords.net
