Alison Fell is a Scottish writer who lives in London. Her poetry collection Kisses for Mayakovsky was winner of the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award, and her alpine novel Mer de Glace won the Boardman Tasker Memorial Award. Her novel The Mistress of Lilliput won unanimous acclaim, and with her picaresque novel The Pillow Boy of the Lady Onogoro has been translated into many languages. She has been a Writing Fellow at the University of East Anglia, and a Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at University College, London and The Courtauld Institute. She is currently Senior Teaching Fellow on the MA Creative Writing Programme at Southampton University. The Element -inth in Greek is her eighth novel.