Harry Josephine Giles

Twa quairs o their wark, Tonguit (2015) an The Games (2018) wis leetit for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award.

Harry Josephine wis brocht up in Orkney an nou bides in Edinburgh. They got a MA degree in Sustainable Development frae the Varsity o St Andras in 2009 an a MA in Theatre Directin in 2010 frae the East 15 Actin Schule.

Harry Josephine wis gart kenspeckle efter winnin the 2009 BBC poesy slam an haes naur aye been winnin or leetit for poesy awards syne. Twa quairs o Harry Josephine's poesy, Tonguit (2015) an The Games wis leetit for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. Tonguit wis leetit for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection forbye. In October 2010, Harry Josephine co-steidit Inky Fingers, a poesy an spoken-wird performance collective in Edinburgh, that is nou Edinburgh's auldest open-mic nicht still rinnin the day.

In Mairch 2020, Harry Josephine wis ane o 100 makars an scrievers that undersubscrieved a open brief tae the Scottish Poesy Librar efter the librar wadna miscry Scots feminist makars that dung doun transgender fowk an their richts.

In 2021, Giles lowsed a verse novul cried Deep Wheel Orcadia. It won the 2022 Arthur C. Clark prize. It wis langleetit fur the Highland Book Prize as weel, but Giles teuk it oot in protest agin the aw-white langleet.

• Visa Wedding (2013); Pamphlet
• Oam (2014); Pamphlet
• Farmform (2014); Series o Postcairds, wabsteid
• Drone (2014); Sequence
• Tonguit (2015); Collection
• Casual Games for Casual Hikers (2015); Airt prent
• Funding a Ritual (2015); Pamphlet
• Raik (2015); Gemm
• 14 Ways To Reread a Favourite Novel (2016); Pamphlet
• Casual Games for City Walkers (2016); Airt prent, wabsteid
• Trump/Pattinson (2017); Pamphlet, wabsteid
• Travellers' Lexicon (2017); Airtbeuk, wabsteid
• New Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (2018); Pamphlet, wabsteid
• The Games (2018); Beuk
• Some Definitions (2019); Zine
• Stim (2019); Zine
• Moon, Sun, and All Things (2019); Zine
• Wages for Transition (2019); Zine
• Deep Wheel Orcadia (2021); Nuvel