Harry Josephine Giles

Harry Josephine Giles (b.1986) is a writer and performer from Orkney, Scotland. Her verse novel ‘Deep Wheel Orcadia’ was published by Picador in October 2021 and won the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction book of the year. Her poetry collections ‘The Games’ (Out-Spoken Press, 2018) and ‘Tonguit’ (Freight Books 2015) were between them shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Saltire Prize and the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. She have a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Stirling. Her show Drone debuted in the Made in Scotland Showcase at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe and toured internationally, and her performance What We Owe was picked by the Guardian’s best-of-the-Fringe 2013 roundup—in the “But Is It Art?” category.

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