Originally from Australia, Alison lived in Brazil for twenty‑four years and now spends time in both countries. She is the co‑author of a forthcoming fifteen‑book early-reader series in Portuguese, to be published in Brazil in 2027, and is a frequent speaker at universities, festivals and literary events internationally. She is currently writing an immersive work of narrative non-fiction, When I Was Riobaldo, about her experience “transcreating” Vastlands: The Crossing.

Her translations have earned her the New South Wales Premier’s Translation Prize and the AAWP–UWRF Translators’ Prize, and have been finalists for the PEN America Translation Prize, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. In 2026, the Government of Brazil appointed her an Officer of the Order of Rio Branco in recognition of her contributions to Brazilian literature.