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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. ^ a b c "English Literature :: Zoe Strachan". University of Glasgow. Retrieved 2 June 2009.
  2. ^ Rawlinson, Zsuzsa. "Zoë Strachan Interview". Faces and Places. British Council. Retrieved 2 June 2009. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  3. ^ a b "Glasgow author awarded major international scholarship". The List. 10 March 2008. Retrieved 2 June 2009.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  4. ^ Hoggard, Liz (20 November 2005). "The L word: Lesbian. Loaded. Loving it". The Independent. Retrieved 2 June 2009.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  5. ^ Strachan, Zoë (12 February 2007). "Sad To Be Gay". Official site. Retrieved 2 June 2009. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  6. ^ Mather, Adrian (9 October 2006). "Zoe books in at museum to tell her story from history". The Scotsman. Retrieved 2 June 2009.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  7. ^ a b Strachan, Zoë. "Zoë Strachan". Official site. Retrieved 2 June 2009. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  8. ^ "Out There (edited by Zoë Strachan) - Freight Books". www.freightbooks.co.uk. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
  9. ^ "Glasgow Women's Library | Celebrating Scotland's Women". www.womenslibrary.org.uk. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
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