Allison Larkin is an American author who has published five novels across her career. Early in her writing life, she published under the pen name Allie Larkin, releasing Stay in 2010, Why Can't I Be You in 2013, and Swimming for Sunlight in 2019. Her later works, The People We Keep (2021) and Home of the American Circus (2025), were published under her full name by Gallery Books.