Alison Wells was born in London, raised in Kerry and lives in Bray. A graduate of Communication Studies and Psychology, she is now an enthusiastic librarian, just awarded an MSc in Library and Information Management. In her writing career, Alison’s debut short story collection was published by Wordsonthestreet in 2023. She has been awarded residencies at Cill Rialaig, Co. Kerry. Her literary short fiction has been Pushcart prize nominated and shortlisted for Hennessy New Irish Writing, Bridport, BBC Opening Lines and Bray Literary Festival. Writing has appeared in The Stinging Fly, The Lonely Crowd, Crannóg, UK National Flash Fiction anthologies Jawbreakers and Scraps and New Island/RTÉ Arena’s New Planet Cabaret. Eat! was highly commended in the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair 2019. In 2020 she was a finalist with The Exhibit of Held Breaths about the life-changing effects of a strange exhibit on a reluctant curator and the inhabitants of a 1980s Irish town. She is working on a flash fiction novella about a community who saw "lights in the sky" and a near future novel about censorship and AI. Her Head Above Water blog explores creativity and resilience.