Walden won the 2018 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work for her graphic novel Spinning, making her one of the youngest Eisner Award winners ever.

Tillie Walden lives in Vermont. She works with children teaching about being a cartoonist. She has written and published three books. She loved to travel, listen to audiobooks, and snuggle with her cat. (Tillie Walden, n.d.).

The short stories included in this graphic novel are peculiar and sometimes eerie, but all have great life lessons if the readers is willing to dig for them. The illustrations are are contrasted with bright colors and lots of gray and black. The graphic novel sets the tone for the stories told and helps the readers envision what author Tillie Walden wants to paint for the readers. This is not simple graphic novel that teens can pick up to past the time, but rather a graphic novel with a deeper meaning that readers may have to dig for. Through digging, there are lessons to be learned, and yet every person that reads Alone in Space may come out of it with their own unique perspective.

A fun program that would be easily implemented is a coloring program with light music. Being a teen can be stressful and giving them the opportunity to destress through art is always a great idea.

This books is not well known nor does it have any awards and honors. It is not an easy nor a fun ready, but it is a graphic novel that when read, teens really like. The difficulty here would be having the teens want to check it out. It is beautifully illustrated, which would help but it can be a slow story at times.

The short stories that Tillie Walden has written and published have been brought up in many posts, sometime people that love them and other times with people that don't. This graphic novel compiles those short stories and give more depth, and literature to her original stories. Tillie Walden is also an example to youth because she is outspoken about her life being queer. Representation within literature is crucial for young adults.