Alison Hill is a freelance editor and poet who was awarded an Arts Council grant to help fund her collection of poems, Sisters in Spitfires. Inspired to publicise the stories of wartime women pilots, she gives talks and readings, and continues to research and write on the subject.

She has previously published Slate Rising and Fifty Ways to Fly, which included a poem by Pauline Gower. She is a member of the Spitfire Society, the Society of Authors, and an RSA Fellow, and she lives in Teddington.