ALISON L. STRAYER is a Canadian writer and translator. Her work has been shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Literature (for Jardin et prairie, a novel, 2000) and for Translation (Mavis Gallant's A Fairly Good Time, with G. Letarte, 2010), the Grand Prix Littéraire de la Ville de Montréal and the Prix France-Quebec. She lives in Paris.