Alison Croggon is a contemporary Australian poet, playwright, fantasy novelist, and librettist. She is the award-winning author of the acclaimed fantasy series The Books of Pellinor. Her most recent book is Fleshers, the first in a dazzling new SF series co-written with her husband, acclaimed playwright Daniel Keene. Her latest Pellinor book, The Bone Queen, was a 2016 Aurealis Awards Best Young Adult Book finalist.

Other fantasy titles include Black Spring (shortlisted for the Young People's Writing Award in the 2014 NSW Premier's Literary Awards) and The River and the Book, winner of the Wilderness Society's prize for Environmental Writing for Children.

She is also a prize-winning poet and theatre critic, and has released seven collections of poetry.