Alexander MacLeod is a Canadian writer and professor of English, Creative Writing and Atlantic Canada Studies at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
[4] In 2019, he won an O. Henry Award for his short story, "Lagomorph", which was first published in Granta.
[5] The son of Canadian novelist and short-story writer Alistair MacLeod[6] and of his wife, Anita MacLellan, he was born in Inverness, Nova Scotia in 1972 and raised in Windsor, Ontario, where his father taught at the University of Windsor.
[9] MacLeod is also a former national level track and field runner and competed for the University of Windsor.
[10] Subsequent to his competitive running career, MacLeod captained both the 2009[11] and 2010[12] Cabot Trail Relay winning teams, the Dennis Fairall Grey Hairs.