ALAN SPENCE is an award-winning novelist, playwright, short story writer and poet. Awards include the People’s Prize, Macallan Scotland on Sunday Prize, McVitie Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year and various Scottish Arts Council awards, including one for his most recent collection of Haiku, Seasons of the Heart (Canongate 2000).
Glasgow-born, he is based in Edinburgh and is currently Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Aberdeen.