Lesley Glaister was born in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, but spent most of her childhood in Felixstowe, Suffolk. She is a novelist, dramatist, poet and teacher of creative writing. She has written sixteen novels, the first of which, Honour Thy Father, won both a Somerset Maugham and a Betty Trask Award in 1990. Easy Peasy won her the title of Yorkshire Author of the Year in 1998 and Little Egypt was awarded a Jerwood Uncovered Fiction Award. Usually writing for adults she temporarily changed direction in 2019 when she published her first Young Adult novel, Aphra’s Child.
Lesley’s stories have been anthologised and broadcast on Radio 4 as have beenseveral of her radio dramas, and her first stage play was performed at the Crucible Theatre Sheffield in 2004. Her two poetry pamphlets Visiting the Animal and Nub are published by Mariscat Press. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and her most recent teaching post was at the University of St Andrews. She currently holds a Royal Literary Fund Fellowship. She lives in Edinburgh with frequent forays to Orkney with her husband, the writer Andrew Greig, and Eddie the cockapoo.
