title: Alison Baker (writer)
text: # Alison Baker (writer)
  
  Alison Baker (born 1953 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania) is an American short story writer.
  
  ## Life
  
  She graduated from Reed College and Indiana University with a Master of Library Science. She worked as a medical librarian and a library activist.
  
  Her work has appeared in Shenandoah, the Atlantic Monthly, Story, Alaska Quarterly Review, Orion Nature Quarterly, the Washington Post, Witness, ZYZZYVA.
  
  She was a Ragdale Foundation resident and a Fellow at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
  
  ## Awards
  
  * 1992 George Garrett Fiction Award for "Field Notes"
  * 1994 O. Henry Award
  * the Gettysburg Review Award
  * George Garrett Award for Fiction
  * finalist for the National Magazine Award.
  
  ## Works
  
  * Loving Wanda Beaver: Novella and Stories. Chronicle Books. 1997. ISBN 978-0-8118-1788-2. Alison Baker.
  * How I Came West, and Why I Stayed. Chronicle Books. April 1, 1993. ISBN 978-0-8118-0324-3.
  
  ### Anthologies
  
  * The Best American Short Stories 1993
  * Best of the West
  * New Stories From the South
  * Pushcart Prize.
  