Alison Hruby started at the Carnegie Center in July 2024. She is at heart an English teacher and began her career with grades 6–8 at a school on Long Island, where she grew up. She holds graduate degrees in the teaching of writing and in reading education and is an Associate Professor of English Education at Morehead State University, specializing in Adolescent Literacy. Alison is thankful for the Carnegie Center, where she has been taking writing classes since she moved to Lexington with her husband and two children in 2010. She is a published poet and aspiring novelist.