Alison Baker

Alison Baker is the author of LOVING WANDA BEAVER and HOW I CAME WEST, AND WHY I STAYED. Both were named New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her award-winning stories have appeared in magazines such as The Atlantic Monthly, Story, and the Gettysburg Review, and they have been included in numerous anthologies, including The O. Henry Awards, Best of the West, and New Stories From the South. Her work has been featured on Selected Shorts at New York's Symphony Space and dramatized for stage in...See more

Alison Baker is the author of LOVING WANDA BEAVER and HOW I CAME WEST, AND WHY I STAYED. Both were named New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her award-winning stories have appeared in magazines such as The Atlantic Monthly, Story, and the Gettysburg Review, and they have been included in numerous anthologies, including The O. Henry Awards, Best of the West, and New Stories From the South. Her work has been featured on Selected Shorts at New York's Symphony Space and dramatized for stage in Seattle, San Francisco, and Takoma Park, Maryland. Her writing has been compared to that of Alice Munro and Lorrie Moore (a fact she mentions early and often), and she has been in residence at Ragdale, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Norman Mailer Foundation. A former medical librarian and library activist, she has been named the Oregon Library Supporter of the Year. She lives on Cape Cod with her husband, their two corgi-mix rescue dogs, and a calico cat. See less