Alison Walker

Alison Walker, Ph.D., is a Senior Marketing Manager at Amazon Publishing, where they shape the future of the book with Kindle Vella. With over a decade of experience in content acquisition, category management, and marketing, they previously held roles at Amazon as a Senior Category Manager and Senior Account Manager in Literary Agencies. Alison also worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Puget Sound, teaching book design principles, and served as a Mellon Research Fellow, developing software applications in digital paleography. They hold a Ph.D. in Medieval Literature and Digital Humanities from UCLA and a BA from Scripps College.