Leone Ross is a novelist, short story writer and editor. Her work has been nominated for the Women’s Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize, the RSL Ondaatje Prize, and the Edge Hill Prize, among others. In 2022, she won the Manchester Prize for Fiction. The Times Literary Supplement called her ‘a master of detail…’ She has taught creative writing for more than 20 years. Her most recent novel is This One Sky Day AKA Popisho and she is the editor of Glimpse: A Black British Anthology of Speculative Fiction.
Fellows are nominated by peers and elected by our Council of writers – our governing Board. Being elected a Fellow of the RSL is a lifetime honour. This role gives them the opportunity to support other writers, readers and the future of literature. The RSL connects writers in the Fellowship to one another, and to a wider readership.
