Alice McVeigh has been published in contemporary fiction by Orion/Hachette, in speculative fiction by UK's Unbound, and in historical fiction by Warleigh Hall Press. Her novels have won first prize in the Global, eLit, Pencraft and Historical Fiction Company book awards, been quarterfinalists for the BookLife, and finalists for the Foreword Indie, CIBA Goethe, Cygnus and Chatelaine, Wishing Shelf and International Book Awards, among others.

Alice spent her childhood in Southeast Asia, her teenage years in McLean VA, and her adulthood in London. She first came to London to study cello with Jacqueline du Pre, and spent fifteen years travelling the world with London orchestras, including the BBC Symphony and the Royal Philharmonic before taking fiction seriously. She has lived in seven countries and visited 44.

Of UK/US nationality, Alice has long been married to Simon McVeigh, professor of music at the University of London. They share a daughter - shortly to start her Ph.D in Chinese Literature at Harvard - two dachshunds and an untreatable addiction to  tennis.