Alexander MacLeod's work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, The Guardian, and The Globe and Mail. His first collection of short stories, Light Lifting (Biblioasis, 2011), was a finalist for both the Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Book Prize. His most recent work, Animal Person (McClelland & Stewart, 2022), was named a Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Irish Times, The Globe and Mail, and CBC Books.

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