{"id":8780,"date":"2025-03-22T09:35:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T09:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=8780"},"modified":"2025-06-18T12:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T11:37:14","slug":"jackie-kay","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/jackie-kay\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackie Kay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jackie Kay was born in Edinburgh, the adopted child of Scottish\/Nigerian descent brought up by white parents in Glasgow. A poet, novelist and writer of short stories, she has enjoyed great acclaim for her work for both adults and children. In 2007 Bloodaxe Books published <em>Darling: New &amp; Selected Poems<\/em>, which included almost all of her four previous books of poetry from Bloodaxe: <em>The Adoption Papers<\/em> (1991), <em>Other Lovers<\/em> (1993), <em>Off Colour<\/em> (1998), which was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, and <em>Life Mask<\/em> (2005). Her epic poem <em>The Lamplighter<\/em> (Bloodaxe Books, 2008; Picador Poetry, 2020) was adapted for both radio and stage, and was followed by <em>Fiere<\/em> (Picador Poetry, 2011), <em>The Empathetic Store<\/em> (Mariscat Press, 2015), <em>Bantam<\/em> (Picador Poetry, 2017) and <em>May Day<\/em> (Picador Poetry, 2024). Picador also published three collections of her stories: <em>Why Don\u2019t You Stop Talking<\/em>, <em>Wish I Was Here<\/em>, and <em>Reality, Reality<\/em>, and her memoir, <em>Red Dust Road<\/em>. From 2016-21 she was the third modern Makar, National Poet for Scotland. She lives in Manchester and is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Salford.<\/p>\n<p><em>This biography of Jackie Kay is taken from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodaxebooks.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bloodaxe Books<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.panmacmillan.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Picador<\/a> websites.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jackie Kay was born in Edinburgh, the adopted child of Scottish\/Nigerian descent brought up by white parents in Glasgow. A poet, novelist and writer of short stories, she has enjoyed great acclaim for her work for both adults and children. In 2007 Bloodaxe Books published Darling: New &amp; Selected Poems, which included almost all of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8781,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-8780","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/8780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}