Alison MacLeod

Alison MacLeod is the author of four novels, including Unexploded, which was nominated for the Man Booker Prize – and Tenderness, a New York Times ‘Best Book’ and a Sunday Times ‘Best Paperback’. Tenderness is the story of the creation and censorship of D. H. Lawrence’s 1928 novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover – which Lawrence initially called Tenderness. MacLeod’s short story collection, All the Beloved Ghosts, was shortlisted for Canada’s Governor General’s Award for Fiction and the Edge Hill Prize for Short Fiction. She has been awarded the Society of Authors Award for Short Fiction (UK), as well as the British Library’s Writer’s Award. Her recent BBC Radio 4 five-part story, ‘Virginia & Katherine’, explores the friendship of Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield (available on BBC Sounds). MacLeod is a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund, a writing mentor, and an occasional features contributor to BBC Radio 4, the Sunday Times, the Guardian and the Telegraph. A senior academic in Literature and Creative Writing, and Professor of Contemporary Fiction at the University of Chichester until 2018, she is now Visiting Professor at Chichester and lectures part-time at Anglia Ruskin University, in association with the Cambridge Writing Centre. Her next novel will be published by Penguin Random House, and she is editing an anthology of new Ukrainian writing about the 2022 full-scale invasion. She lives in Brighton. www.alison-macleod.com