[1] Alyson Noël was born on December 3, 1966, raised in Orange County and attended Richard Nixon Elementary School for two years.

[3] Afterward, she moved to Manhattan, New York, where she worked as a flight attendant for Delta Air Lines.

She has had a variety of jobs such as babysitter, department store sales clerk, administrative assistant, office manager, jewelry maker, T-shirt painter, and front desk hotel clerk, in addition to flight attendant and considers herself an author.

On March 28, 2011, Alyson Noël announced that all 10 books in both The Immortals and The Riley Bloom series have been optioned by Summit Entertainment.

[5][6][7] On June 28, 2012 Alyson Noël stated on Twitter that all 4 books in the Soul Seekers Series have been optioned for film by Cheyenne Enterprises.