Ali Marsman was born in Halifax on January 11, 1978 and spent twenty-five years living in Nova Scotia before coming to British Columbia in 2003.

Her first books, Heal With Me and Our Journey Goes On sent her on a journey throughout Canada presenting motivational workshops and speeches, in schools, group homes, shelters and within various other organizations and societies. She has been profiled in various magazines, on television programs as well as radio.

Her first novel Sporadic Memories (Saga Books, 2008 978-1-897512-11-1) is the first installment of a proposed trilogy, to be followed by Because of Grandfather and by Because of Grandmother. Both will be an elaboration on the lifestyle lived in Sporadic Memories through the eyes of the grandson and granddaughter.

[BCBW 2008] "Fiction"