Pulp.net - MacLeod, Alison

Alison MacLeod moved from her native Canada to England in 1987 to take up a place on Lancaster University’s MA in Creative Writing. She is a citizen of both countries. Her first novel, The Changeling, won praise from The New Statesman, Time Out, The Independent, Scotland on Sunday and Kirkus Reviews. Her second novel, The Wave Theory of Angels (2005, Hamish Hamilton), is set in France in 1284 and Chicago in 2001, and explores the forces of mystery and imagination in the world. Her short fiction collection, Fifteen Modern Tales of Attraction, will be published in 2007. She teaches on the MA in Creative Writing at University College Chichester and lives in Brighton.