Jean McNeil is originally from Nova Scotia, but has lived in London for twenty years. She is the author four novels and a collection of short fiction; her novel Private View was nominated for Canada’s premier literary award, the Governor General’s, in 2003; her books are published in Canada, USA and Britain. In 2010 she was a Mellon Foundation scholar at the University of Cape Town. She teaches on the MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia and at Birkbeck College in London.