Zoë Strachan

Zoë Strachan (born 1975) is a Scottish novelist, journalist and university tutor.

Biography

Strachan grew up in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire.[1] She studied Archeology and Philosophy at the University of Glasgow and earned a MPhil in Creative Writing at the universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde.[2] She later became a Creative Writing tutor at the University of Glasgow.[3] Strachan lives in Glasgow with her girlfriend, novelist Louise Welsh.[4][5]

Work

Strachan's work has been published in New Writing 15, Bordercrossing Berlin, The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature, and The Antigonish Review.[1] In 2006 she was named the first Writer-in-Residence at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.[6] Her first novel, Negative Space, was published in 2002 by Picador.[7] It won the Betty Trask Award in 2003 and was short-listed for the Saltire First Book of the Year Award.[1] Her second novel was 2004's Spin Cycle. In 2008 Strachan was awarded the Hermann Kesten Stipendium fellowship.[3] As of June 2009, she was working on her third novel, Play Dead.[7] In 2014, she edited an anthology of LGBT writing called Out There, published by Freight Books.[8]

She and Zoe Louise Welsh contributed a short story entitled "Anyone Who Had a Heart" to Glasgow Women's Library's 21 Revolutions Project. Twenty-one Revolutions commissioned 21 writers and 21 artists to create works to celebrate the 21st anniversary of Glasgow Women's Library.[9]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "English Literature :: Zoe Strachan". University of Glasgow. Retrieved 2009-06-02.
  2. ↑ Rawlinson, Zsuzsa. "Zoë Strachan Interview". Faces and Places. British Council. Retrieved 2009-06-02.
  3. 1 2 "Glasgow author awarded major international scholarship". The List. 2008-03-10. Retrieved 2009-06-02.
  4. ↑ Hoggard, Liz (2005-11-20). "The L word: Lesbian. Loaded. Loving it". The Independent. Retrieved 2009-06-02.
  5. ↑ Strachan, Zoë (2007-02-12). "Sad To Be Gay". Official site. Retrieved 2009-06-02.
  6. ↑ Mather, Adrian (2006-10-09). "Zoe books in at museum to tell her story from history". The Scotsman. Retrieved 2009-06-02.
  7. 1 2 Strachan, Zoë. "Zoë Strachan". Official site. Retrieved 2009-06-02.
  8. ↑ "Out There (edited by Zoë Strachan) - Freight Books". www.freightbooks.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
  9. ↑ "Glasgow Women's Library | Celebrating Scotland's Women". www.womenslibrary.org.uk. Retrieved 2016-03-30.

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