Alison Flett was born in Edinburgh in 1965 and now lives in Orkney, where she works in the Learning Support Department of her local secondary school. She has had poetry and short stories published in a number of anthologies and magazines and has performed her work on television and radio.

Previous publications include Restricted Vocabulary (Clocktower Press, 1991) and Writing Like A Bastard (Rebel Inc, 1993). Her latest collection, Whit Lassyz Ur Inty, is published by Thirsty Books (2004).