Alexander MacLeod

Alexander MacLeod was born in Inverness, Nova Scotia and raised in Windsor, Ontario. His award-winning short fiction has been published in many of the leading Canadian and American literary journals and collected in the 2009 Journey Prize Anthology. He holds a BA from the University of Windsor, an MA from the University of Notre Dame, and a PhD from McGill University. Alexander MacLeod lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia and and teaches at Saint Mary's University in Halifax.

His new book of short stories, Light Lifting, is shortlisted for the 2010 Giller prize.

Appearances at BookFestWindsor:
November 5, 4:45 - 5:35 pm (Wilkinson)
November 6, 8:45 - 10:00 pm (Wilkinson)