Alison Baker (born 1953 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania) is an American writer of short stories and essays.
[1] She graduated from Reed College and Indiana University with a Master of Library Science.
Her work has appeared in Shenandoah, the Atlantic Monthly, Story, Alaska Quarterly Review,[2] Orion Nature Quarterly, the Washington Post,[3] Witness, ZYZZYVA.
She has written and recorded personal essays and commentaries for Jefferson Public Radio in Ashland, Oregon, and Outermost Community Radio in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
She was a Ragdale Foundation resident, a Fellow at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and a Fellow at the Norman Mailer Writers Center.