Harry Josephine Giles

Harry Josephine Giles is a writer and performer from Orkney, living in Leith. Their verse novel Deep Wheel Orcadia was published by Picador in October 2021 and won the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction book of the year. Their poetry collections The Games (Out-Spoken Press, 2018) and Tonguit

(Freight Books 2015) were between them shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Saltire Prize and the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. They have a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Stirling. Their show Drone debuted in the Made in Scotland Showcase at the 2019 Edinburgh

Fringe and toured internationally, and their performance What We Owe was picked by the Guardian's bestof- the-Fringe 2013 roundup in the But Is It Art? category