Author Biography
Alistair McHarg spent his early years in Edinburgh and Amsterdam, moving to Philadelphia with his father, Ian, and mother, Pauline, at age six. He attended Germantown Friends School, Haverford College, and the University of Louisville. The prestige of an M.A. in Creative Writing enabled McHarg to secure employment with one of Philadelphia's least reputable cab companies, where he pulled 12 hour shifts 6 days a week for a year. Other forays into dead-end employment have included deckhand on a Norwegian tramp freighter, forest fire fighter in Alaska, and guide at a Canadian wilderness survival camp. Alistair has been arranging words for a living since 1983. He is the author of a memoir of manic depression entitled Invisible Driving, three novels, countless poems, hundreds of reviews, and an ever-growing catalog of El Lagarto cartoons.
