Daisy Lafarge is a poet and novelist based in Glasgow. She is the author of the poetry collection Life Without Air (Granta, 2020), which was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and awarded Scottish Poetry Book of the Year. Her novel Paul (Granta, 2021) won a Betty Trask Award and was a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Lovebug, a book on the poetics of infection, was published in 2023. Her writing on ecology, art and literature has been widely published, appearing in Granta, Frieze, the Financial Times and elsewhere. She has a PhD from the University of Glasgow, and has lectured in literature, writing, and fine art research. In 2025 she was made a MacDowell Fellow and an RLF Fellow at the University of Glasgow, and she recently contributed a chapter to the Routledge Companion to Simone Weil. Lafarge’s second novel is forthcoming in 2027. Author photo © Jesse Dittmar
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