Alison is a mother of three, and she has worked as an Assistant District Attorney for over twenty years, except for five years during which she lived in Singapore. While in Singapore she published an essay in Expat Living Magazine, co-authored The Expats’ Guide to Singapore, and wrote a regular magazine column. Now back in the US, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Stanford Magazine, Cleaver, Seaside Gothic, Bluebird Word, Flash Fiction Magazine, Bright Flash Literary Review, The 2023 Swan Song Anthology, and Short Beasts. She was a finalist in Bellingham Review's 2021 Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction and the WOW! Women on Writing Winter 2023 Flash Fiction Contest, and her stories were shortlisted for the SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction and the 2022 Retreat West Short Story Contest. Her continued work as an ADA is an endless source of material, allowing her intimate, rare glimpses into the lives of others, and the humanity we all share. She lives in Santa Cruz, California, and is working on her first novel.