Alison Cinnamond is the author of Mimi the Pug Had a Very Smushed Mug. Alison is a senior level communications executive who has lived and worked in South Africa, the United States, Switzerland, Vietnam, China, Japan, Bangladesh, and Qatar. She is a world traveler and an avid reader with a lifelong love of animals. She is a Mom to Bailey and Calla, and her two fur babies Mimi and Luna. She is from Cape Town, South Africa and lives in Bethesda with her husband Don and their family.