Daisy Lafarge was born in Hastings and studied at the University of Edinburgh. She has published two pamphlets: understudies for air (Sad Press, 2017) and capriccio (SPAM Press, 2019), and her visual work has been exhibited in galleries such as Tate St Ives and Talbot Rice Gallery. She has received an Eric Gregory Award and a Betty Trask Award, and was runner-up in the 2018 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. Life Without Air (Granta, 2020) was her first collection of poetry and was named Scottish Poetry Book of the Year and shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Since then, she has published a novel Paul (Granta 2021; Riverhead 2022), which won a Betty Trask Award and was a New York Times Editors’ Choice; and Lovebug, a book on the poetics of infection (Peninsula Press, 2023). Author photo © Sophie Davidson
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