Jean McNeil, born 1968, is a Canadian fiction and travel author. She is a Reader in Creative Writing and co-convenor of the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at the University of East Anglia.[1]
She grew up on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. She presently lives in London, England.[2]
Awards and recognition
- Winner, Grand Prize and Adventure Travel category at the Banff Mountain Film Festival Book Awards Book Competition for Ice Diaries: an Antarctic Memoir, 2016.
- Nominated for a Canadian National Magazine Award for 'Ice Diaries: A Climate Change Memoir,' (extract from book in progress) 2013.
- Awarded a Canada Council Grant for the Arts, 2013.
- Finalist, Prism International prize for creative non-fiction, for 'The Skeleton Coast', Vancouver, Canada, 2013.
- Nominated for the 2013 Pushcart Prize, USA for 'Ice Diaries', published 2012.
- Winner, Prism International prize for creative non-fiction, for 'Ice Diaries: A Climate Change Memoir', Vancouver, Canada, 2012.
- Shortlisted for the BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinkers scheme, 2012.
- Winner, Walkopedia travel writing award, 2011.
- Shortlisted, Metcalfe-Rooke award for an unpublished novel manuscript, for Fire on the Mountain, 2011.
- Awarded British Antarctic Survey/Arts Council England International Fellowship to Antarctica, 2005
- Nominated, Governor General's Award for English-language fiction, Canada, 2003
- Awarded Canada Council Award for the Arts, 2002.
- Awarded London Arts Board Award for the Arts, 1997.
- Shortlisted, Journey Prize for short fiction (Canada), 1997.
- Winner, Prism International short story competition, 1997.
Bibliography
- Hunting Down Home (UK: Phoenix 1996, US: Milkweed Editions 1999) ISBN 978-1-57131-026-2
- Nights in a Foreign Country (2000) ISBN 1-86159-186-1
- Costa Rica (2001) ISBN 1-85828-136-9
- Private View (2002) ISBN 1-86159-188-8
- The Interpreter of Silences (2006) ISBN 1-55278-563-7
- The Ice Lovers (2009) ISBN 978-1-55278-802-8
- Night Orders: Poems from Antarctica and the Arctic (2011) ISBN 978-1-906613-39-6
- Ice Diaries: an Antarctic Memoir (2016) ISBN 978-1-77041-318-4
- The Dhow House (2016) ISBN 978-1785079443
- Fire on the Mountain (2018) ISBN 978-1785078996
References
Further reading
- Mary Conde: Old Europe and New World: A reading of Catherine Bush's "The Rules of Engagement" and Jean McNeil's "Private View," in Narratives of crisis – crisis of narrative, Martin Kuester, ed., with Françoise LeJeune, Anca-Raluca Radu, Charlotte Sturgess. Wißner, Augsburg 2012 ISBN 9783896398499 (Studies in anglophone literatures and cultures, 3) pp. 67 – 76
External links
- Official website
- Jean McNeil at uea.ac.uk