Alexander MacLeod's fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta and The O Henry Prize Stories. His first book, Light Lifting, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and The Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. In 2021, Lagomorph, his collaboration with Andrew Steeves, won the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia’s Masterworks Arts Award. Animal Person, released in April 2022, is his newest work.