Daisy Lafarge

Daisy Lafarge is a writer and artist living in Glasgow. She is the author of the novel Paul (Granta, 2021; Riverhead 2022), which won a pre-publication Betty Trask prize and was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and the poetry collection Life Without Air (Granta 2020), which was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot prize and awarded Scottish Poetry Book of the Year. Other honours include an Eric Gregory award, runner-up in the Edwin Morgan Poetry award and a shortlisting for the John Pollard International Poetry prize. Daisy’s writing on ecology, art and literature has been widely published, appearing in Granta, Frieze, Financial Times, the New York Times, Art Review, TANK, The White Review, and elsewhere.

Daisy was the recipient of a Lord Kelvin/Adam Smith interdisciplinary doctoral scholarship from the University of Glasgow, and received her PhD in 2021. Lovebug, a book on the poetics of infection, and a reworking of her doctoral project, was published by Peninsula in 2023. Daisy has lectured in literature, art writing, and fine art at the University of St Andrews, the Glasgow School of Art, and the University of Glasgow.

At present, Daisy is working on new fiction and poetry as well as freelance work. She recently contributed a chapter to the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Simone Weil. EVOLVER, a VR installation exploring the flow of breath through the body, and for which Daisy wrote a script, was co-produced by Terence Malick and shortlisted for the ‘Immersive’ category at the Cannes Film Festival in 2024.