Jackie Kay

JACKIE KAY is the author of the memoir Red Dust Road as well as several critically acclaimed poetry collections--including The Adoption Papers (winner of the Scottish Arts Council Book Award), Off Colour (shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize), and Life Mask (a Poetry Book Society Recommendation)--almost all of which were collected in Darling: New & Selected Poems . Her first novel, Trumpet , won the Guardian Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for International Dublin Literary Award. A former...See more

JACKIE KAY is the author of the memoir Red Dust Road as well as several critically acclaimed poetry collections--including The Adoption Papers (winner of the Scottish Arts Council Book Award), Off Colour (shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize), and Life Mask (a Poetry Book Society Recommendation)--almost all of which were collected in Darling: New & Selected Poems . Her first novel, Trumpet , won the Guardian Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for International Dublin Literary Award. A former National Poet of Scotland, she has also written several plays and children's books. She lives in Manchester, England. See less