Born to Canadian parents of mixed, predominantly British heritage, Allison M. Azulay spent her formative years in a village outside of the capital city of Ottawa and her teen years in the steel city of Hamilton, Ontario. Like her mother, she read voraciously, and she composed stories of her own at home as well as in school.

Later, encouraged by her husband to explore her ideas and talents, she joined a local writers' group and took a correspondence course with Roger Brunt of Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. She wrote magazine articles, poems, short stories, children's storybooks for relatives, and more.

After the death of her husband, she began to write and independently publish novels and flash fiction.