Ian Graham Leask was born in what is now the Royal Borough of Richmond Upon Thames, West London, and has lived in Southend-on-Sea, Brighton & Hove, in England; Saarbrucken in Germany; and now makes his home in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, where he took degrees from the University of Minnesota. Leask is a publisher and has taught fiction writing, literature, mythology and composition for the University of Minnesota, COMPAS Writers-in-the-Schools, and the Loft-a non-academic institution for the advancement of writing in Minneapolis. He is also a private literary consultant for fiction writers and memoirists. He co-hosts KFAI's book-talk show, "Write On! Radio" and is the author of the novel House of Large Sizes.
