Dr Zoë Strachan is the award-winning author of three novels: Ever Fallen in Love, Spin Cycle and Negative Space. As an editor, she has collected six new writing anthologies, and she also publishes short stories, essays and criticism. She is Reader in Creative Writing at University of Glasgow and has a PhD in Scottish Literature. Fellowships include the International Writing Program of University of Iowa, the University of Otago, UNESCO City of Literature writer-in-residence at the National Museum of Scotland and a Robert Louis Stevenson Award. Two of her works for stage are Panic Patterns (with Louise Welsh) and an opera adaptation of The Lady from the Sea (music by Craig Armstrong) for the Edinburgh International Festival, where it won a Herald Angel Award. She makes sound art/experimental radio with composer Nichola Scrutton. Voluntary roles include serving as Patron of the Imprint Book Festival, and on the Board of Directors of Glasgow Women’s Library. Zoë is interested in collaborative interdisciplinary projects that involve the use of arts-based methodologies as a research strategy, or storytelling and other arts activities for communication, intervention and dissemination.

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