Alison MacLeod is a Canadian-British writer. She is most noted for her 2013 novel Unexploded, which was a longlisted nominee for the 2013 Man Booker Prize, and her 2017 short story collection All the Beloved Ghosts, which was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 2017 Governor General's Awards.Born in Montreal, Quebec of Nova Scotian parents and raised in Montreal and Halifax, Nova Scotia, she has lived in Brighton, England since 1987. MacLeod studied English literature at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax and later, completed her masters in creative writing and Ph.D at the University of Lancaster. She is published by Bloomsbury and Penguin Canada, and is a professor of contemporary fiction at the University of Chichester. She is a citizen of both Canada and the United Kingdom.