Alison Edgson was born in County Down in Northern Ireland. She worked in the computer department of a bank before studying Visual Communication at the University of Ulster in Belfast. After graduating with a First, she and her husband Jeff moved to an old chapel in the Usk Valley in Wales where she now paints and illustrates children's books and greetings cards. She spends most of her free time trying to tame the tangle of Welsh hillside that is her garden, indulging the cat, and walking her two energetic Labradors. She loves running and generally getting involved in village life.