Harry Josephine Giles

1986–

Harry Josephine Giles is a poet, writer and performer, born in London and raised in Orkney. They took a master's degree in sustainable development at the University of St Andrews and later a doctorate at the University of Stirling on minority language and speculative poetics in Orkney writing. Based in Edinburgh, they co-founded the performance collective Inky Fingers and have worked across poetry, theatre and song. Their verse novel Deep Wheel Orcadia, written in Orkney dialect with a parallel English translation, won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2022.

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