Alison Fell (born 1944 in Dumfries, Scotland) is a Scottish poet and novelist with a particular interest in women's roles and political victims.

Alison Fell was educated at Dumfries Academy and Edinburgh Art College, from which she graduated as a sculptor.

[1] An account of the company and Fell's life at this period appears in Michèle Roberts's memoir Paper Houses.

Her children's books Grey Dancer (1981) and The Bad Box (1987) "deal with growing up in left-wing working-class families."

[3] In addition to her output of poetry and fiction, she held the School of English and American Studies Writing Fellowship at the University of East Anglia in 1998.