Alison Sinclair is the author of the science fiction novels Legacies, Blueheart, and Cavalcade (which was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke award). Alison was raised in Edinburgh, Scotland and Victoria B.C: since then she has lived in five cities in Canada, one in the US, and one in the UK. She has three university degrees and is currently working on a MSc in Epidemiology at McGill in Montreal.