Heather Macleod was born 1961 and lives in the Highlands. She is an ecologist by training, but in real life a full-time mother of four and part-time cleaner, auxiliary worker, gardener, and student with Open College of the Arts. A late but determined starter to writing, she has had one very short story broadcast on Radio Scotland 2002 and was runner-up in the BBC Wildlife Nature Writing Competition 2003.