Martin MacInnes

MacInnes was born in Inverness and lives in Edinburgh. He has degrees from Stirling and York Universities and won the Edward and Thomas Lunt Prize for his thesis on Virginia Woolf. He has read from his work at literary festivals in Edinburgh, Pitlochry, and Mangochi in Malawi, and at the 2015 Edinburgh International Science Festival. In 2014 MacInnes won a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award and the £10,000 Manchester Fiction Prize. He has written fiction and non-fiction for more than a dozen journals and anthologies, including a series of linked articles on biography and ecology for Edinburgh Review.