Alistair grew up on the stories his dad read him at night, classical music whenever his mum sat at the piano, and the role playing games he made up with his brother and cousins. Much of his childhood was spent exploring the fields behind his parents’ house. In his writing, Alistair routinely treats speculative fiction as he would a slice-of-life drama. And makes it queer.After years in France and years in the UK, he settled on the East Coast of Canada with his husband and their twenty plushies.