Over the past fifteen years, Alison McCreesh has extensively travelled around the Arctic and sub-Arctic, and contemporary day-to-day life in the North is a theme that carries through her creative work. Alison currently lives in Yellowknife, where she creates comics and illustrations surrounded by her two dogs and three small children. Alison’s past books include the award-winning graphic novel Ramshackle: A Yellowknife Story, as well as the travelogue Norths: Two Suitcases and a Stroller around the Circumpolar World.