Meet Jean McNeil at Harbourfront IFOA XXX
Sunday, October 25, 2PM at Studio Theatre
This Writing Life: Rewards and Challenges of Being a Writer. Lisa Foad, Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Jean McNeil and Ingo Schulze talk to Antanas Sileika about being a writer.
Friday, October 30, 8PM at Lakeside Terrace
Reading: Lisa Foad, Jen Hadfield, Sarah Hall, Jean McNeil, Michael Thomas
Jean McNeil, author of the Governor General’s Literary Award-nominated novel Private View, is originally from Nova Scotia but has lived in London, England since 1991. In 2005–06 she travelled to Antarctica as the British Antarctic Survey/Arts Council of England International Fellow to Antarctica, and has since been writer-in-residence in the Falkland Islands and on a scientific expedition to Greenland. She is currently a Fellow at Cambridge University and teaches at the University of East Anglia. McNeil’s The Ice Lovers reveals the terrible consequences of unrequited love through an expedition to the slowly disintegrating Antarctic in the year 2016.






















