Alison Paul creates illustrations and stop-motion animations using cut paper collage. Her work is fundamentally about storytelling to a variety of audiences. Paul’s animations have been shown in film festivals internationally, and she is the author and illustrator of two picture books for children published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Sunday Love (2010) and The Crow (A Not So Scary Story) (2007). She is author of The Plan (2015), which received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews. Paul is Artistic Coordinator of Art in the Park, Greater Kennedy Plaza and the City of Providence, which was supported by a Creative Capital Hub Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2011 and Arts Access Grants from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts in 2017, 2016, 2015, and 2012.

Paul earned a BFA in Illustration with a concentration in English from the Rhode Island School of Design. She completed a MFA in Visual Narrative from the School of Visual Arts, where she was recipient of the Paula Rhodes Memorial Award for Exceptional Achievement in Visual Narrative. Paul is Associate Professor of Illustration/Animation. She has taught at UConn since 2011.