Today our MFA student, Laura Ann Phillips is in conversation with Leone Ross
Leone Ross was born in the UK and grew up in Jamaica. She is a three-time novelist, short story writer, editor and educator. The Guardian has praised her ‘searing empathy’ and the Times Literary Supplement called her ‘a pointilliste, a master of detail...’ Ross has taught creative writing for 20 years, up to PhD level. Her 2017 short story collection, Come Let Us Sing Anyway 2017 [Peepal Tree Press] includes erotica, body horror, Afrofuturism and fantasy elements. Her third novel, the magic realist This One Sky Day aka Popisho was published in 2021 [Faber & Faber/FSG] named a New York Times Editor’s Choice and nominated for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Award and the Royal Society for Literature’s Ondjaate Award, among others. In 2022, Ross won the UK Manchester Prize for Fiction for a single short story, ‘When We Went Gallivanting’, the story of a high rise ‘ghetto’ building that dances across England. Ross is the editor of Glimpse: A Black British Anthology of Speculative Fiction, the first of its kind, published in 2022 [Peepal Tree Press].You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram.