Besides her popularity, Alison has been keeping her personal profile low and secret. Till date there is no any information about her love affairs and husband in the media. Her nationality is American and she is of white ethnicity.
Alison grew up with a dream to be a talented writer. In June 1994, she began her career as an assistant food writer at Oxmoor House. She worked in this organization editing light cookbooks for about two years. At the end of 1996, she was hired by Southern Progress Corporation where she worked as an assistant food editor of Southern Living Magazine. She was associated with this organization till June 2002. In 2001, she joined Time Inc... She has been working in this organization as a freelance food, travel writer and recipe developer since that time on. She is best known in the world for being the founder and creator of Healthy Travel Magazine. There she also works as a publisher and editor in chief. The actual figure about her salary, net worth and age is unknown.