McNEIL, JEAN
JEAN McNEIL is a Professor of Creative Writing at UEA and the author of fourteen books, including six novels and a collection of short fiction. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards and has won the Prism International Competitions for short fiction and for creative non-fiction. Her work has been nominated for the Governor General's award for fiction, the Journey Prize, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation National literary awards and the Pushcart Prize (Canada/USA). Most recently she was the winner of the 2016 Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival's Grand Prize for her memoir Ice Diaries, based on the year she spent as writer in residence in Antarctica with the British Antarctic Survey. She has undertaken official scientific and environmental writing residencies in the Falkland Islands, in Svalbard, and aboard ship-based expeditions to Greenland and across the Atlantic ocean. Recent work includes a multimedia exhibition in 2018 on landscape and the life and work of Walter Benjamin, as well as curating and writing the texts for an exhibition, ‘Notes on the Anthropocene’, as part of Barcelona Gallery Weekend, September 2020. For more information see www.jeanmcneil.co.uk
