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A.D. Childers is an American novelist, short story writer, and educator from Kansas. She is best known for her debut novel, The Switch Point (2023), and her psychological thriller, A History of Madness (2025). Writing under both A.D. Childers and her short fiction name, Alisha Davis, she combines mystery and the paranormal in narratives that explore memory, trauma, and perception.
A.D. Childers holds a Master’s degree in Creative Writing for Educators from Fairleigh Dickinson University. She teaches high school English and remains active in local writing communities. Before turning to novels, she earned recognition in several national and regional contests, including first place for prose in the 2020 Kansas Voices competition. She was also a semi-finalist for the 2024 Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Fiction Prize. Childers credits Tana French and Ray Bradbury as influences.
Her first novel, The Switch Point (2023), follows true crime filmmaker Kennen Clarke, who returns to his hometown of Ashter to investigate an unsolved death from his past. As he reopens the twenty-year-old case of Leonie Tilden’s death near the train tracks, he becomes entangled in local legends, ghost stories, and disturbing clues that link him more closely to the tragedy than he expected. The novel was praised for its layered structure and atmospheric tension and described by readers as “a thinking-person’s book.”
Her second novel, A History of Madness (2025), centres on Didion Dumont, a woman recovering from a suicide attempt who is transferred to a private psychiatric hospital in rural Iowa. As she adjusts to life in the Green Ward and meets its unusual residents, she begins to question her long-standing hallucinations. The story blends psychological suspense with speculative elements, as Didion uncovers a shared past among the patients and unearths truths about her mind. The first chapter of the novel received an honourable mention from the Kansas Authors Club in 2024.
A.D. Childers lives in Kansas with her husband, their elderly cat, and a large, affectionate Great Pyrenees.
Photo credit: adchilders.com
A.D. Childers holds a Master’s degree in Creative Writing for Educators from Fairleigh Dickinson University. She teaches high school English and remains active in local writing communities. Before turning to novels, she earned recognition in several national and regional contests, including first place for prose in the 2020 Kansas Voices competition. She was also a semi-finalist for the 2024 Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Fiction Prize. Childers credits Tana French and Ray Bradbury as influences.
Her first novel, The Switch Point (2023), follows true crime filmmaker Kennen Clarke, who returns to his hometown of Ashter to investigate an unsolved death from his past. As he reopens the twenty-year-old case of Leonie Tilden’s death near the train tracks, he becomes entangled in local legends, ghost stories, and disturbing clues that link him more closely to the tragedy than he expected. The novel was praised for its layered structure and atmospheric tension and described by readers as “a thinking-person’s book.”
Her second novel, A History of Madness (2025), centres on Didion Dumont, a woman recovering from a suicide attempt who is transferred to a private psychiatric hospital in rural Iowa. As she adjusts to life in the Green Ward and meets its unusual residents, she begins to question her long-standing hallucinations. The story blends psychological suspense with speculative elements, as Didion uncovers a shared past among the patients and unearths truths about her mind. The first chapter of the novel received an honourable mention from the Kansas Authors Club in 2024.
A.D. Childers lives in Kansas with her husband, their elderly cat, and a large, affectionate Great Pyrenees.
Photo credit: adchilders.com
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