Gordon Meade lives with his family in the East Neuk of Fife where he divides his time between his own writing and running creative writing courses for vulnerable young people. He is also a Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow most recently attached to the University of Dundee. Widely published in the UK and abroad, his work is available in six full-length collections including the following, all published by Arrowhead Press; The Familiar (2011), The Private Zoo (2008) and The Cleaner Fish (2006).