Jean McNeil, born 1968, is a Canadian fiction and travel author. She is a Reader in Creative Writing and co-convenor of the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at the University of East Anglia.^[1]

She grew up on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. She presently lives in London, England.^[2]

Awards and recognition

• Winner, Grand Prize and Adventure Travel category at the Banff Mountain Film Festival Book Awards Book Competition for Ice Diaries: an Antarctic Memoir, 2016.
• Nominated for a Canadian National Magazine Award for 'Ice Diaries: A Climate Change Memoir,' (extract from book in progress) 2013.
• Awarded a Canada Council Grant for the Arts, 2013.
• Finalist, Prism International prize for creative non-fiction, for 'The Skeleton Coast', Vancouver, Canada, 2013.
• Nominated for the 2013 Pushcart Prize, USA for 'Ice Diaries', published 2012.
• Winner, Prism International prize for creative non-fiction, for 'Ice Diaries: A Climate Change Memoir', Vancouver, Canada, 2012.
• Shortlisted for the BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinkers scheme, 2012.
• Winner, Walkopedia travel writing award, 2011.
• Shortlisted, Metcalfe-Rooke award for an unpublished novel manuscript, for Fire on the Mountain, 2011.
• Awarded British Antarctic Survey/Arts Council England International Fellowship to Antarctica, 2005
• Nominated, Governor General's Award for English-language fiction, Canada, 2003
• Awarded Canada Council Award for the Arts, 2002.
• Awarded London Arts Board Award for the Arts, 1997.
• Shortlisted, Journey Prize for short fiction (Canada), 1997.
• Winner, Prism International short story competition, 1997.