Jenni Fagan
Dr. Jenni Fagan has published six poetry collections:
- Urchin Belle (Nominated for Pushcart Prize) (2009)
- The Dead Queen of Bohemia (3AM Poetry Book of the Year) (2010)
- The Dead Queen of Bohemia (New & Collected) (2016)
- There’s A Witch in the Word Machine (2018) (Written on Residency at Shakespeare and Company in Paris)
- Truth (2019) (A book length single poem written whilst travelling across US)
- The Bone Library (2022)
Four fiction novels:
- The Panopticon
- The Sunlight Pilgrims
- Luckenbooth
- Hex
Fagan’s work has been listed for the BBC International Short Story Prize, Waterstones Best Worldwide debut, Impac Dublin, James Tait Black, Desmond Elliott, The Sunday Times Short Story Prize, she was selected as a Granta Best of Young British Novelist in 2012 for her debut novel, and was Scottish Author of the Year at the Culture Awards in 2016. Her work is translated into eight languages.
Fagan is adapting two of her fiction novels for television and a third for film.
Dr. Jenni Fagan has previously taught as Poetry Lecturer at Strathclyde University, Writer in Residence at the University of Edinburgh, Poet in Residence at Summerhall on the Gavin Wallace Fellowship where she engraved poetry onto bones creating a permanent display in the building, her poetry is also in gold all around the walls there. Fagan has worked with young offenders and women in prison.
She has written for The Independent, The New York Times, and Marie Claire amongst others.
Two first class degrees were followed by a PhD in Structuralism where she graduated as a Dr. of Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh.
Dr. Jenni Fagan grew up in local authority care in Scotland.
She received the front page of The New York Times Book review for two novels, one of those reviews described her as: The Patron Saint of Literary Street Urchins.
Her upcoming works include a memoir — Ootlin, a new fiction novel, and a poetry collection — Like A Swan’s Neck on the Butchers Block.
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