Lindz McLeod is an award-winning queer, working-class, Scottish writer and editor who dabbles in the surreal. She was the Competition Secretary of the Edinburgh Writers' Club from 2019-2023, and was elected as their Club President in 2023. Her work has been taught in schools and universities, made into avant-garde opera, has been displayed in the Victoria & Albert Museum in Dundee, and has been optioned for television. Lindz is an experienced freelance editor and writing coach for both fiction and non-fiction, as well as an accomplished workshop host. Along with her fiancée Z.K. Abraham, Lindz hosts the Cinema Worms podcast which reviews everything from blockbusters to indie screenings. Lindz has read for various magazines and competitions including the Edinburgh Short Story Award and Edinburgh Flash Fiction award, and has also judged multiple fiction competitions.

Additionally, she is a full member of the SFWA, the Scottish Writers Association, and the Federation of Writers (Scotland). She has been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart prize multiple times, as well as for Best Small Fictions, and has been longlisted for the British Science Fiction Awards In 2019, Lindz was awarded a Masters in Creative Writing from the Open University. In 2023, she began a PhD in Creative Writing with Manchester Metropolitan University-her thesis centers around vision and intimacy in literature, with a focus on broadening accessibility. She writes equally comfortably in English and Scots, and has been teaching herself Gaelic for two years. Recently, she has taken up acting. She very rarely sleeps. She is represented by Laura Zats at Headwater Literary Management for her literary work: laura@headwaterliterary.com She is represented by Kim Yau at Echo Lake for film/TV: kim@echolakeentertainment.

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