Leone Ross (1969---) is a Jamaican/British writer, publishing novels and short stories. She writes psychological drama, erotica and speculative fiction. Her third novel will be published in 2011 and is a satirical love story, about Xavier Pere, a widowed, impotent chef addicted to hallucinogenic moths. Leone has been published by Anchor, Penguin, Warner Books, Picador USA, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Tindal Street Press, Sceptre, Canongate, Dutton Plume, St Martin's Press, Simon & Schuster and Actes Sud in France. Her first novel was longlisted for the UK Orange Prize in 1997. She was given an Arts Council Award in 2000. She was named runner-up, 2008 VS Pritchett Memorial Prize. Leone lives between London and Kingston and works at Roehampton University's Creative Writing department.She is beloved, intense, creative and likes to look at small things.