Dr Alison Alexander is a seventh-generation Tasmanian and an award-winning author who has written numerous historical works about Tasmania. Her first book, about about Australian children’s author Mary Grant Bruce was published in 1979. Many books followed including The Ambitions of Lady Jane Franklin: Victorian Lady Adventurer which won the Australian National Biography Award 2014. In 2022, The Waking Dream of Art: Patricia Giles, Painter by Alison Alexander won the Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History. Alison is the President of the Convict Women’s Press (CWP) a not-for-profit book publishing association. CWP publish books about female convicts, particularly those written by members of the Female Convicts Research Centre, of which Alison has been a long-term committee member, author, and editor of many of their publications. Alison is a Life Member of the Tasmanian Historical Research Association and was awarded the Clive Lord Memorial Medal by the Royal Society of Tasmania for her research in Tasmanian history.