Karen McLeod

Karen McLeod is a writer, performer and creative writing tutor who spent twelve years as British Airways cabin crew, writing her first novel in hotel rooms around the world. That novel, In Search of the Missing Eyelash, published by Jonathan Cape, received a Betty Trask Award in 2007; Muswell Press reissued it in 2024 alongside Lifting Off, her memoir of her flying years. She has an MA from Goldsmiths, University of London, performs as the character Barbara Brownskirt, and is writer-in-residence at the Bookseller Crow bookshop in Crystal Palace.

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