"The problem I’m faced with now, as that cursed and persistent thing, a trans woman in public, is how to write through the constraints of an overdetermined identity."
Introducing our Summer Recommendation Harry Josephine Giles - a writer and performer from Orkney. She holds an MA in Theatre Directing from East 15 Acting School and a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Stirling. Her verse novel Deep Wheel Orcadia received the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for
Science Fiction Book of the Year.
Her poetry collections – Tonguit and The Games – were shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award, the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and the Saltire Poetry Book of the Year.
Them! is available to order with 25% off here using your member discount code at www.poetrybooks.co.uk.