Alison Baker (born 1953 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania) is an American short story writer.
She graduated from Reed College and Indiana University with a MLS. 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.