About Alice McVeigh
Alice McVeigh, born in Seoul, spent her childhood in Asia and her teenage years in McLean, VA. Upon graduating from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, she came to London to study cello for a single year, married an Englishman, and has lived in London ever since. Alice performed all over the world in London orchestras including the BBC Symphony and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, while Orion/Hachette released her first two novels, WHILE THE MUSIC LASTS and GHOST MUSIC. In 2021 Unbound Publishing published her speculative thriller, LAST STAR STANDING (under her middle and maiden names), while Warleigh Hall Press published the first in her current, multi-award-winning Jane Austen-inspired series.
Since 2021, McVeigh’s Austen novels have been honoured at London Book Fairs in the UK Selfie Book Awards (2024, 2025), finalists for Foreword Indies’ Book of the Year (2022, 2025), quarterfinalists for the Booklife Prize, captured (the only) silver medal in the all-genre SPR Book Awards and featured as runner-up in the Writers Digest ebook awards. They have won innumerable gold medals (IPPY, Pencraft, Global, Historical Fiction Company, NIEA, Incipere etc.). In 2024, her series won First Place in Chanticleer’s 2024 award for historical novel series.
Alice and her professor husband share one daughter (currently studying Chinese Lit. at Harvard), two long-haired dachshunds, and an incurable addiction to tennis.