About the Author

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Alyssa Delle Palme is a writer and director of Wild Roots Nature and Forest School. Her news, sports and entertainment stories have been heard over the airwaves in Ottawa (CIDG), Moncton, New Brunswick (CFQM) and Smithers, British Columbia (CFBV). She has been published in the Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa Family Living Magazine and Fifty-Five Plus Magazine. In 2022, her short story Just Rosie June, Wild and Free, was published in a wellness book for children titled, When I Am Among the Trees. One Thousand Trees, a small publishing house in Guelph, Ontario, published the book, which is a collection of short stories about Forest Bathing and the benefits of nature. In 2023, her debut novel, Summer at Pine Lake, was published by Evernight Teen. When Alyssa isn’t writing, she can be found playing in the forest with her three children, Henry, Rosemary and Hubert.