Alexander MacLeod is a fiction writer and a professor of English and Atlantic Canada Studies at Saint Mary’s University. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta and The O Henry Prize Stories. His first collection, Light Lifting, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and Lagomorph, his collaboration with Andrew Steeves, recently won the 2021 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia’s Masterworks Arts Award. In April, he published Animal Person, a new collection of stories.
Join us as Alexander reads from Animal Person and answers questions about his work and the writing process.