The Basics

Alison Isaac is a Caribbean-Canadian writer and teacher from Toronto, Canada. Besides Canada, Alison has lived in Mexico, Ecuador and Colombia.

Her story “Legacy” was long listed for the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival’s Emergent Writers short story competition, and named winner of the Rewrite Reads inaugural issue. Her short story “Isa” was also published by Rewrite Reads. Her first children’s book, Kookumbah, was published in December 2020, and her narrative, "Speech Patterns," was  published in Living Hyphen in 2022.  

Other Projects

- Global Narrative celebrates writers of the African diaspora — with a particular interest in diverse CanLit — through content and gifts that centre their stories

- Some  of the books she has helped bring to the world: And the Walls Came Down (Denise Da Costa), Suite as Sugar (Camille Hernández Ramdwar), Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and other Dilemmas (Gloria Blizzard)

- Ripple Foundation's annual Kids Write 4 Kids Creative Challenge judge 

- "Dad's Bookshelf..." a first person essay in the Globe and Mail 

- "Speech Patterns," featured  on  Living Hyphen's podcast (Season 1, Episode 5 called "Word Limit")