Alissa Nutting (born 1980 or 1981)[2] is an American author, creative writing professor and television writer.

Her writing has appeared in Tin House, Fence, BOMB and the fairy tale anthology My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me.

Nutting went to high school with Lafave; seeing someone she knew on the news raised her awareness of the issue of female predators.

[6] She also explains how her publisher and editors understood that the content needed to be explicit and they didn’t ask her to tone it down.

[7] Her writing has appeared in The Norton Introduction to Literature, Fence, Tin House, The New York Times, Bomb, Conduit, and O: The Oprah Magazine.

[8] Nutting would later go on to co-create Teenage Euthanasia with Alyson Levy for Adult Swim, which premiered on the network on September 6, 2021 and is renewed for a second season.