Alison Wearing (born 1967) is a Canadian writer and performer most noted for her memoir and solo play, Confessions of a Fairy's Daughter.
Wearing, born in Peterborough, Ontario, studied French, music, and political science across various universities in Canada and Germany.
Wearing's writing career began with articles and stories written while living in Prague, where she taught English to members of Václav Havel's first post-revolutionary government of Czechoslovakia.
Her first short story, "Notes From Under Water", was published first in the Queen's Quarterly and then selected for the Journey Prize Anthology (McClelland and Stewart, 1994).
Wearing's first book was the internationally acclaimed travel memoir, Honeymoon in Purdah (Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2000), her account of a trip to Iran.
After moving to central Mexico in 2002, Wearing turned her attention to the performing arts, singing, recording and touring with world/folk musician Jarmo Jalava, and studying dance and choreography.
Autobiographical in nature, Confessions of a Fairy's Daughter tells the story of growing up with a gay father in Peterborough, Canada, in the 1980s.