Zoë Strachan

Zoë Strachan (2014)

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.[1] She studied Archaeology and Philosophy at the University of Glasgow and earned a MPhil in Creative Writing at the universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde.[2] She later herself became a creative writing tutor at the University of Glasgow.[3] Strachan lives in Glasgow with her partner, the 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 shortlisted for the Saltire First Book of the Year Award.[1] Her second novel, in 2004, was Spin Cycle. In 2008 Strachan was awarded the Hermann Kesten Stipendium fellowship.[3] In June 2009, she was on study leave, working mainly in Germany on a third novel, Play Dead.[7] In 2014, she appeared as editor of an anthology of LGBT writing called Out There, published by Freight Books.[8] In 2023, her fourth novel, Catch the Moments as They Fly, was published by Blackwater Press.[9]

In 2011, Strachan took part in the International Writing Program Fall Residency at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa.[10]

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.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b c "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. ^ a b "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. ^ a b 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.