Alison Cooklin was born in 1971 in Colchester, Essex. After graduating in Modern Arabic Studies at Leeds University she spent the next eight years working for an Arabic speaking television station, which gave her the opportunity to discover the Middle East, its people and their cultures. Her visit to Morocco provided the inspiration for the setting of her second book in the Light Travellers series, ‘Noura’s Journey’, where the heroine Noura faces a long and bewildering journey across the Sahara desert.

Alison then began a new career as a belly dance teacher and performer ( www.bellycise.com). It satisfied her creative energies for a while but the need to write became too strong and whilst her children were very small she began forming her ideas for the series of books that would become the Light Travellers series. Finally in 2015 her children’s novel ‘The Light Travellers: Luke’s Journey’ was published.

The author currently lives in Suffolk, UK with her husband and two children.