Jackie Kay is a Scottish poet, playwright, and novelist, known for her works Other Lovers (1993), Trumpet (1998) and Red Dust Road (2011). Kay has won many awards, including the Somerset Maugham Award in 1994, the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1998 and the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book of the Year Award in 2011. From 2016 to 2021, Jackie Kay was the Makar, the poet laureate of Scotland. She was Chancellor of the University of Salford between 2015 and 2022 and joined The Northern School of Writing as Professor in 2023. She has published over twenty books and her first picture book for children Coorie Doon, is published by Walker Books in 2024. You can read a fuller biography and see a complete list of her works here.
Teaching at the Northern School
Introduction to Children’s Literature; Final Portfolio; Experimental Practice; Writer’s Workshop; Writer’s Practice.