Meaghan Delahunt

Born in Melbourne, Australia, Meaghan Delahunt has lived in Edinburgh for around 15 years and now lectures in Creative Writing at the University of St Andrews.

While living in Australia, Delahunt dropped out of her University degree to join the Socialist Workers Party of Australia, and took a job at a General Motors car assembly line where she became a union leader and wrote for the SWP newspaper. After eight years she left the SWP, and in 1991 she left Australia to travel and live in South East Asia and India. Her first novel, In The Blue House, was published in 2001 and nominated for the Orange Prize, won the Saltire First Book Prize, a Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Prize, and a regional Commonwealth Prize. Her second novel, The Red Book, is set in India 20 years after the Bhopal disaster.