Alicia Assad is a memoirist whose work explores motherhood, resilience, the sacred, and the miraculous. She is the co-author of Fishing on the Right Side of the Boat.
The Artistry of Faith
A memoir in essays, stories from a burn unit, and seventeen years of writing on resilience and motherhood.
Fishing on the Right Side
of the Boat
Stories, Symbols & the History of Mary Magdalene
Alicia Assad & Kelly Ingraham
The Magdalene Thread
Essays and conversations on Mary, women in the Christian tradition, and what history preserved—or obscured.
A Book of Love:
101 Messages from God
A collection of divinely inspired messages by Sally Johnston preserved and brought into publication by Alicia Assad.
About Alicia
Alicia Assad, MAPP is a memoirist whose work explores the sacred and the miraculous, motherhood, and Mary Magdalene. She is the co-author, with Kelly Ingraham, of Fishing on the Right Side of the Boat: Stories, Symbols & the History of Mary Magdalene. Together they also create The Magdalene Thread and publish under La Suvera Press, their independent imprint. Alicia writes personally at The Artistry of Faith and is the editor and steward of Sally Johnston’s A Book of Love: 101 Messages from God.
Drawing on both lived experience and formal study, Alicia’s work is shaped by motherhood, a devoted spiritual practice, her training as a professional dancer, and her studies of wellbeing at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was among the first 100 students to earn a Master of Applied Positive Psychology.
As Miss New Jersey, Alicia was the youngest contestant in the Miss America 2002 Pageant and recipient of the Overall Elegance & Lifestyle award. A former Radio City Rockette and Wilhelmina Fitness Model, she earned a BS in Arts Administration with a minor in Dance from Wagner College. She is certified in Pilates, Health Coaching, and Colour Therapy, trained as a Reiki Master in the Usui System, and is a two-time runner of the New York City Marathon. She is also a practitioner of yoga, meditation, and various energy healing traditions.
After moving from New York City to Long Island, then across the world to Hong Kong and back again—to Jackson Hole, Wyoming—Alicia is now growing deep roots on a farm in Bedford, New York, alongside her husband, five children, and beloved rescue animals.
Words of Praise
“In my mind’s eye, Alicia, is one of the leading voices around motherhood, a Goddess.”
-Elaine O'Brien, PhD
“Alicia's posts are like sacred script. I hang on every word. And they ring as true now as I mother my older children as they do for those in the newborn stage. Astounding, profound, inspiring.”
-Tracey Clark
“Alicia is the Prose Laureate of Motherhood.”
-Eleanor Chin, MAPP