Jean McNeil

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.