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Zoë Strachan

b. 1975

British journalist

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About Zoë Strachan

Born 1975. Zoë Strachan is a British journalist, librettist and writer.

Zoë Strachan (born 1975) is a Scottish novelist and journalist. She also teaches creative writing at the University of Glasgow.

Early life and education Strachan grew up in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. She studied Archaeology and Philosophy at the University of Glasgow and earned a MPhil in Creative Writing at the universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde. She later herself became a creative writing tutor at the University of Glasgow. Strachan lives in Glasgow with her partner, the novelist Louise Welsh.

Work Strachan's work has been published in New Writing 15, Bordercrossing Berlin, The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature, and The Antigonish Review.

Her first novel, Negative Space, was published in 2002 by Picador. It won the Betty Trask Award in 2003 and was shortlisted for the Saltire First Book of the Year Award. In 2023, her fourth novel, Catch the Moments as They Fly, was published by Blackwater Press.

In 2011, Strachan took part in the International Writing Program Fall Residency at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa.

She and Louise Welsh contributed a short story, "Anyone Who Had a Heart", to Glasgow Women's Library's 21 Revolutions Project, in which 21 writers and 21 artists were chosen to create works for the 21st anniversary of Glasgow Women's Library.

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1975, Kilmarnock
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International Writing Program, University of Strathclyde, Grange Academy

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Who is Zoë Strachan?

British journalist

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Zoë Strachan was born in 1975 in Kilmarnock.

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Zoë Strachan is a journalist, librettist and writer.

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Zoë Strachan is British.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Zoë Strachan

· Wikidata: Q4989803

· DBpedia: Zoë Strachan

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