Scottish writer Zoë Strachan is the author of three novels: Ever Fallen in Love (Sandstone Press, July 2011), Spin Cycle, and Negative Space (Picador), which won a Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the Saltire First Book of the Year Award. In 2003 the Independent on Sunday listed Zoë in their top twenty novelists under 30.

Zoë has published numerous short stories, essays and articles and also writes drama and libretti for opera. Her work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and Radio 3. She has received two writer’s bursaries from the Scottish Arts Council and a Hawthornden Fellowship, and she was UNESCO City of Literature writer-in-residence at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.

In 2008 she was awarded a Hermann Kesten Stipendium and spent time in Nuremberg, and in 2009 she gained a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship, which took her to France to write. Her play Old Girls opened the 2009/10 season of A Play, a Pie and a Pint at Oran Mor in Glasgow, and her short opera Sublimation (with composer Nick Fells) toured Scotland in May 2010 with Scottish Opera before going to South Africa in November 2010.

Zoë lives in Glasgow where she teaches part time in the prestigious Creative Writing programme at the University of Glasgow. She is currently embarking on a major opera project as well as adapting for radio a play, Panic Patterns, which she co-wrote with her partner Louise Welsh (performed in 2010 in the Citizen’s Theatre, Glasgow). You can find out more about her work at www.zoestrachan.com. Follow her on Twitter at @ZoeStrachan.