Alistair McHarg

Alistair McHarg was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, moved immediately to Edinburgh, and three years later moved to Amsterdam. At 6 he settled in Philadelphia and for 16 years was confused by Quaker education; Germantown Friends School and Haverford College. A Master of Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Louisville nudged him even closer to unemployability.

Convinced at an early age that fate had chosen writing as his calling, Alistair followed a characteristically slow and circuitous path. He has found work as deck hand on a Norwegian tramp freighter touring South America, Bureau of Land Management Emergency Fire Fighter in Alaska, guide at a Canadian wilderness survival camp, truck driver crisscrossing Colorado's continental divide, and inner city cabbie.

Alistair has been arranging words on paper for a living since 1983. He is the author of a bipolar memoir - INVISIBLE DRIVING, two satiric novels, MOONLIT TOURS and WASHED UP, and a poetry anthology entitled 50 POEMS. His website is www.alistairmcharg.com and he blogs at http://blog.alistairmcharg.com/

“In Chestnut Hill money didn't talk, but it drank, and played a lot of golf.”

Alistair McHarg

“Everything is, the way it is, for a reason. Or it isn't. Or neither. Or both. It's so hard to tell. It's so hard to tell you're a mile away by the Luke in your eye.”

Alistair McHarg