Author Alexander MacLeod at Dawson College

Wednesday, February 26, 2025
12:00 pm
Dawson College, 5B.16

Dawson Reads Writer Series features Alexander MacLeod reading, talking about his work, and taking questions on Wedensday, February 26 at noon in 5B.16 (near the Sherbrooke entrance of the college). The event is open to the public.

QWF College Writers Award finalist and recent Dawson graduate Clara Frey will also be reading.

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, was named a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, The Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, and the Commonwealth Book Prize. In 2019, he won an O Henry Prize. His most recent collection, Animal Person, was published in 2022 and was recognized as a “Book of the Year” byThe New Yorker, The Irish Times, The Globe and Mail and CBC Books. Alexander lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia and teaches at Saint Mary’s University.

MacLeod holds degrees from McGill University, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Windsor. He currently lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, and teaches at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax. 

In 2024, he edited, with Souvankham Thammavongsa the special thirty-fifth-anniversary edition of The Journey Prize Anthology.