Alistair Paul lives on the Isle Of Arran where he works as a gardener and where he and his partner raised a family of two children. In 2018 he won a Scottish New Writers Award and his first book 'Linne Dhomhain' was awarded the prize for the The best unpublished Manuscript at the Gaelic Literature Awards in 2020. All together his work has appeared five times on the award's short lists. As well as writing fiction Alistair has had poetry, non fiction articles and reviews published in Steall, Dàna, Poet's Republic and Tuath and he has published a collection of Arran folklore, poetry and music.