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Zoë Strachan (2014)
Scottish novelist and university teacher, born 1975

Zoë Strachan (born 1975) is a Scottish novelist and journalist. She also teaches creative writing at the University of Glasgow.

Biography

Strachan grew up in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. She studied Archaeology and Philosophy at the University of Glasgow and earned a MPhil in Creative Writing at the universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde. She later herself became a creative writing tutor at the University of Glasgow. Strachan lives in Glasgow with her partner, the novelist Louise Welsh.

Work

Strachan's work has been published in New Writing 15, Bordercrossing Berlin, The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature, and The Antigonish Review. In 2006 she was named the first Writer-in-Residence at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.

Her first novel, Negative Space, was published in 2002 by Picador. It won the Betty Trask Award in 2003 and was shortlisted for the Saltire First Book of the Year Award. Her second novel, in 2004, was Spin Cycle. In 2008 Strachan was awarded the Hermann Kesten Stipendium fellowship. In June 2009, she was on study leave, working mainly in Germany on a third novel, Play Dead. In 2014, she appeared as editor of an anthology of LGBT writing called Out There, published by Freight Books. In 2023, her fourth novel, Catch the Moments as They Fly, was published by Blackwater Press.

In 2011, Strachan took part in the International Writing Program Fall Residency at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa.

She and Louise Welsh contributed a short story, "Anyone Who Had a Heart", to Glasgow Women's Library's 21 Revolutions Project, in which 21 writers and 21 artists were chosen to create works for the 21st anniversary of Glasgow Women's Library.

References

  1. ^ "Zoe Strachan". British Council - Literature. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
  2. Rawlinson, Zsuzsa. "Zoë Strachan Interview". Faces and Places. British Council. Retrieved 2 June 2009.
  3. ^ "Glasgow author awarded major international scholarship". The List. 10 March 2008. Retrieved 2 June 2009.
  4. Hoggard, Liz (20 November 2005). "The L word: Lesbian. Loaded. Loving it". The Independent. Archived from the original on 22 June 2008. Retrieved 2 June 2009.
  5. Strachan, Zoë (12 February 2007). "Sad To Be Gay". Official site. Archived from the original on 20 November 2008. Retrieved 2 June 2009.
  6. Mather, Adrian (9 October 2006). "Zoe books in at museum to tell her story from history". The Scotsman. Retrieved 2 June 2009.
  7. ^ Strachan, Zoë. "Zoë Strachan". Official site. Retrieved 2 June 2009.
  8. "Out There (edited by Zoë Strachan) – Freight Books". www.freightbooks.co.uk. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
  9. "Professor Zoe Strachan". University of Glasgow. Retrieved 29 November 2024.
  10. "2011 Resident Participants | The International Writing Program". iwp.uiowa.edu. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
  11. Laura (21 August 2013). "21 Revolutions Podcast: Zoe Strachan & Louise Welsh". Glasgow Women's Library. Retrieved 13 July 2019.

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