Born in 1983 in Aberdeen, Fiona McAllister is a Scottish-Irish novelist and former UX researcher. She studied philosophy and cognitive science at the University of Edinburgh, earned an M.Phil. in Creative Writing from Trinity College Dublin, and worked for a decade in human–computer interaction labs before turning full-time to fiction. Her short stories have appeared in The Stinging Fly, Gutter, and Litro, and her essays on technology and memory have been featured by the Guardian and BBC Radio Scotland. She lives in Inverness with her partner and a patient border collie, and teaches occasional workshops on narrative craft and digital ethics.
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