Alison Langley’s first novel, Budapest Noir: Ilona Gets a Phone, was published by Dedalus Books in 2024. Ilona was a finalist of the Irish Writer’s Centre Novel Prize 2022. Her short stories have appeared in The Pig’s Back and Frazzled Lit.  Her story The Date was short-listed for the Bournemouth Writing Prize, and a collection of her work can be read in the upcoming anthology, Psychedelic Yodelling, by Insurgent Press. Langley lives in the Swiss Alps with her husband and dog, where they garden and hunt mushrooms.  She also runs a writing retreat.

Previously, Langley was a former foreign correspondent with extensive experience covering events across Europe for publications like The Guardian, New York Times, Dow Jones News Wires and Deutsche Welle. From 1990 to 1994, Langley freelanced for the Wall Street Journal Europe in Budapest, where her debut novel, Ilona Gets A Phone is set.