She is most noted for her Booker Prize-nominated novel Far to Go, and was a winner of the Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award for most promising writer in Canada under 35.

Alison Pick is the author of three novels (The Sweet Edge, Far to Go, and Strangers With the Same Dream), two poetry collections and one memoir (Between Gods).

During her teenage years, Pick discovered that her father's Czech family was originally Jewish although he had been raised a Christian.

[7] Pick's novel Far to Go won the Canadian Jewish Book Award and was nominated for the 2011 Man Booker Prize.

[8] Pick is the author of Between Gods, a memoir about depression, family secrets, and forging a new identity from the ashes of the past.