Maria McCann

Maria McCann is an English novelist born in Liverpool in 1956. She worked as a lecturer in English at Strode College, Street, Somerset from 1985 until starting work with Arden. McCann's first novel, As Meat Loves Salt, was released in 2001 and focuses on the relationship of two men, Jacob Cullen and Christopher Ferris, during the English Civil War. She also contributed a short story titled Minimal to the anthology New Writing 12 published by the British Council in 2005. Her second novel, The Wilding, was published in 2010 and follows the story of a young cider-presser and his dark family secrets. McCann's third novel is Ace, King, Knave.