Martin MacInnes

Martin MacInnes was born in Inverness in 1983. He has an MA from the University of York, has read at international science and literature festivals, and is the winner of a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award and the 2014 Manchester Fiction Prize. He lives in Edinburgh.

His novels including Infinite Ground (2016), which won the Somerset Maugham Award, and In Ascension (2023), which was longlisted for the Booker Prize, and won Blackwell’s Book of the Year, the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year and the Arthur C Clarke award. His work often delves into themes of the human condition in the 21st century, weaving narratives that reflect on the tensions between digital advancement and ecological devastation.