Alison Lohans, M.Ed., has been writing since early childhood and was first published at age 12. Born and raised in small town central California, she completed her undergraduate degree in Music Education at CalState Los Angeles in 1971, and soon afterwards immigrated to Canada, where she has lived ever since. Alison has been a dual citizen of both countries for many years.

Alison's 30 books have been published by a number of Canadian and international presses. They range from picture books for young children (The 1-Dogpower Garden Team, September 2021), through early chapter books for young readers (Tyler Evans the Great, October 2023); middle-grade novels; "younger" young adult novels; YA novels for older teens and adults (Timefall https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1097651, and Don't Think Twice); and her two romance novels (Strong as a Pharaoh, 2022 https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1149380,
and Canine Cupid, 2021 https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1088124).
Her sixth picture book, The Wind & Amanda's Cello, will be released in fall 2024 by Shadowpaw Press.

Many of her books have appeared on "notable" lists and have been finalists for awards; some have been winners - most recently, her picture book The 1-Dogpower Garden Team brought home a Silver Medal in the 2022 Moonbeam Awards. The first edition of Timefall (2018, Five Rivers Publishing) was selected as a finalist for the 2019 Prix Aurora Award. This Land We Call Home (published by Pearson Education, New Zealand, 2007, now available from Pearson Education Australia) won the 2008 Saskatchewan Book Award for YA Literature.

In addition to her books, Alison writes and publishes across a diverse range of short works for adults and children - fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and academic fiction - and she's won awards for pieces in each of these areas. She even published a song, "The Saskatchewan Blues", published in 1980 in a Canadian music textbook for classroom use.

While living in British Columbia (1971-1976) Alison completed her Postgraduate Diploma in Elementary Education at the University of Victoria while also working as a pharmacy assistant, and additionally spent a year teaching high school English at a tiny private school in Argenta, B.C. Alison later completed her M.Ed. degree in 2002, at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan,

Moving to Regina, Saskatchewan in 1976, Alison taught instrumental music in the publi...