“Equally at home with the weird and the everyday, McQuade is a singular talent worth seeking out.”
The Herald
PAUL MCQUADE
Paul McQuade is an award-winning writer and translator originally from Glasgow, Scotland. Since leaving Glasgow he has spent time in Edinburgh, Tokyo, New York, and Paris. He is currently somewhere in-between. He has been shortlisted for The White Review and Bridport prizes for short fiction and the Anne Brown prize for nonfiction. He was the recipient of the Sceptre Prize for New Writing 2014, the Austrian Cultural Forum Writing Prize 2017, and the Cymera Prize for Speculative Short Fiction 2024.
His debut story collection, Between Tongues, was published in 2021 by Cōnfingō. He is the author of Hometown Tales: Glasgow, with Kirsty Logan, part of Weidenfeld & Nicolson’s series championing writing from and about diverse regions across the U.K.
He is represented by Johnson & Alcock.