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Leone Ross was born in England and grew up in Jamaica. Her first novel, All the Blood Is Red, was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and her second novel, Orange Laughter, was chosen as a BBC Radio 4 Women's Hour Watershed Fiction favourite. Her short fiction has been widely anthologised and her first short-story collection, Come Let Us Sing Anyway was nominated for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, the Jhalak Prize, the Saboteur Awards and the OCM BOCAS Prize. Ross has taught creative writing for twenty years, at University College Dublin, Cardiff University and Roehampton University in London. She is editor of Glimpse - the first Black British anthology of speculative fiction. Prior to writing fiction, Ross worked as a journalist. She lives in London but intends to retire near water.
'Noisy, sexy, profusely inventive, Ross's storytelling crashes over the reader like an invigorating ocean wave.' DAILY MAIL 'Sensitive and skilful . . . deeply emotive.' PRIDE MAGAZINE Readers love All the Blood is Red: 'A stunning book . . . it's about victory, even when it doesn't look the way we thought it would. Ross has a powerful writer's voice.' 'I was hooked from start to finish . . . marvelling at how she wrote these four distinct women who were joined by threads of vulnerability and strength.'
