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