Daughter of a mother from the Wirral Peninsula and a father from Missouri, Alison Jean Lester spent her formative years in the US and the UK. Her studies took her to China, Taiwan and Italy. She then worked and raised her children in Japan and Singapore. She is the author of the novels Lillian on Life, Yuki Means Happiness and Glide, the collections Locked Out: Stories Far from Home and Restroom Reflections: How Communication Changes Everything, and the memoir Absolutely Delicious: A Chronicle of Extraordinary Dying, a finalist in the Indie Excellence Books Awards. She now lives with her photographer husband in Worcestershire, England.