Niamh Gordon (she/her) is a writer and interdisciplinary researcher. She has an MA in Prose Fiction from the University of East Anglia, and is currently studying for a PhD in Creative Writing and Narrative Studies at the University of Glasgow, where she has taught courses on poetry and poetics, experimental writing, and writing the body. Her research is funded by the AHRC and explores narrative time and how it functions; representations of bereavement by suicide; affective and lyric modes; and motherhood and embodiment. She is also interested in narrative (un)reliability, and walking as creative practice.

Her fiction, essays and poetry have featured or are forthcoming in publications including New Writing Scotland, Flash Fiction Magazine, Return Trip, The Polyphony, and Strix. She is a Research Assistant for the RSE-funded DeathWrites Network, where she coordinates a network of Scotland-based writers working on writing relating to dying, death, grief and loss. She’s previously acted as a co-editor at the literary magazine From Glasgow to Saturn, and is a member of the art collective Babe Station (@babe__station) which interrogates the relationship between motherhood and art-making.

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