Alison Maloney is a journalist and author from Kent. As well as a long stint on The Sunday Post newspaper, as a film and feature writer, she worked as a children's book editor for two years.

To date, Alison has written several children's books including Tilly Turner: Champion Gurner, Dig the Dog and One Lucky Duck (all Meadowside Books), and the adult nostalgia title The Forties: Good Times are Just Around the Corner (Michael O'Mara).

Alison lives with her husband and two children in Wrotham.