Between 1988-91 she studied at Middlesex Polytechnic and worked, lived and staggered around London, graduating with a BA(Hons) in Studies in Contemporary Writing. After this, she returned to Edinburgh, working again in offices to gain back her reputation as the oldest office junior in Britain, until receiving a Scottish Arts Council Bursary in 1997 to allow her to write full-time.

BIOGRAPHY

Biography on the National Library of Scotland website - here
Biography on the Pulp.net website - here

INTERVIEWS

LAF and Inizjamed interview with Clare Azzopardi - here
The Danforth Review interview with Zsolti Alapi - here
Barcelona Review interview by Jill Adams - here
Disturb.com interview with Jean Paul Coillard - here
‘Child of Albion Rovers’ – Ideas Factory interview - here

FICTION

‘I Am Gone’ in the Barcelona Review - here
‘The Happening’ in the Barcelona Review - here
‘Of Cats and Women’ in the Barcelona Review - here
‘Routes’ in the Barcelona Review - here
‘The Whirlwind’ on Save Our Short Story Campaign - here
‘Meat’ in the Literary Review - here
‘Castle Terrace Car Park’ on Pulp.net (pdf) - here

REVIEWS

‘Born Free’ reviewed by Kevin MacNeil in The List - here
‘Born Free’ reviewed by Carol Birch in The Guardian - here
‘Born Free’ review on BookCrossing - here
‘Born Free’ review on Word Power website - here
‘Nail and Other Stories’ reviewed by J.M. Frank in Mindjack Magazine - here
‘Nail and Other Stories’ reviewed by Lori L. Lake on Amazon - here
‘Routes’ in Barcelona Review reviewed by The Cyber Rambler - here
‘Strictly Casual’ – Book detail on Serpent’s Tail - here
‘Strictly Casual’ – Interview with editor Amy Pryor - here

TRANSLATIONS

‘L’Ongle’ / ‘Les Lois de l’hérédité’ (Editions Désordres) - here
‘L’Ongle’ (Editions Désordres) – Review on Le Matricule des Anges - here
‘L’Ongle’ (Editions Désordres) – Profile on Journal L’Alsace - here
‘L’Ongle’ (Editions Désordres) – Review in Le Temps - here
‘Les Lois de l’hérédité’ (Editions Désordres) – Review on Jowebzine - here
‘Como en familia’ (Editorial Siruela) - here
‘Nägel’ (Eichborn Verlag) - here
‘Nägel’ (Eichborn Verlag) - Anne Kathrin Hahn’s review in Satt - here
‘Nägel’ / ‘Born Free’ (Eichborn Verlag) - here
‘Nägel’ / ‘Born Free’ (Eichborn Verlag) – Kirsten Eisenberg’s review in Aviva Berlin - here
‘Born Free’ (Eichborn Verlag) - here
‘Born Free’ (De Bezige Bij) - here
‘Vapaana syntynyt’ (sammakko) - here
‘Vapaana syntynyt’ (sammakko) – Review on Kiiltomato- here
‘Født fri’ (Tidern Skifter) - here
‘Unghia’ (Einaudi) - here
‘Wrzu? na luz’ (?wiat Ksi??ki) - here
‘Acidi scozzesi’ (Einaudi) - here

PREVIOUS EVENTS

British Council Capital Letters IV reading in Munich with Friedrich Ani - here
Lit.Cologne 2002 - here
Writing on the Wall Festival, Liverpool – Drinking Tales - here
Crossing Border Festival 2000, Amsterdam - here

MISCELLANEOUS

'Hope and Other Urban Tales' - Book detail for my new short story collection on the Canongate website - here
‘Dear Laura’ – Details of current project on Jenny Brown Associates website - here
‘Drink and Be Merry’ – Article in The Guardian, 2000 - here
The Laura Hird Short Story Blogs on Storyglossia - here
2000 Whitbread Book Award for First Novel Shortlist - here