Anne MacLeod

ANNE MACLEOD is known throughout Scotland for her poetry and fiction. Her short stories have been widely anthologised and read on radio; her novel The Dark Ship (11/9) is a Scottish best seller; Standing by Thistles (Scottish Cultural Press, 1997) her first poetry collection was shortlisted for a Saltire Literary award; Just the Caravaggio appeared from Poetry Salzburg in 1999, and was reprinted in 2001. Anne is one of the more recent names in the long and well-established caravan of doctor/writers. A dermatologist, working in the Highlands, she has four children and lives on the Black Isle.