Janice Galloway (born 1955 in Saltcoats, Scotland) is a Scottish writer of novels, short stories, prose-poetry, non-fiction and libretti.

Biography

She is the second daughter of James Galloway and Janet Clark McBride. Her parents separated when she was four and her father died when she was six. Her sister Cora, sixteen years older, died in 2000 from smoking-related illness. Janice Galloway's secondary education was at Ardrossan Academy, which is described in the memoir ''All Made Up.'' She studied Music and English at

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, then worked as a school teacher for ten years before turning to writing. She was the first Scottish Arts Council writer in residence to four prisons (HMPs Cornton Vale, Dungavel, Barlinnie and Polmont YOI) and was the ''

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'' Research Fellow to the

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in 1999. Her awards include: MIND/Allan Lane Award (for '' The Trick is to Keep Breathing''), the McVitie's Prize (for ''Foreign Parts''), the E.M. Forster Award (presented by the American Academy of Arts and Letters), the Creative Scotland Award, Saltire Book of the Year (for ''Clara'') and the SMIT non-fiction Book of the Year for ''This is not about Me'' and Scottish Best Book of the Year 2012 for ''All Made Up''. Janice Galloway lives in the Kingdom of Fife. She has one son, James. She has written and presented three radio series for BBC Scotland (''Life as a Man'', ''Imagined Lives'' and ''Chopin's Scottish Swansong'') and works extensively with musicians and visual artists including Sally Beamish, Anne Bevan, Michael Wolchover, Norman McBeath, Alasdair Nicolson and James McNaught. Her books '' Clara'' and ''This is Not About Me'' were recorded for the RNIB Talking Books service by the author in 2004 and 2009 respectively. ''This is Not about Me'' and ''All Made Up'' are available to buy. She collaborated with Anne Bevan to create ''Rosengarten'', an exhibition at the

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in Glasgow in 2004. Inspired by research into obstetric instruments and the mechanics of childbirth, it featured nine light tables with sculptural pieces in bronze, plaster and fabric by Bevan with poems and text by Galloway. In December 2008 she was a guest on ''

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'' and Eliot's '' Felix Holt'' and ''

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Works

Novels

*'' The Trick is to Keep Breathing'' (1989) *''Foreign Parts'' (1994) *''Clara'' (2002) (based on the life of

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)

Collections of short stories

*''Blood'' (1991) *''Where You Find It'' (1996) *"Collected Stories" (2009) *"Jellyfish" (2019, Granta ) and has been widely anthologised in collections and translation since 1990.

Poetry

*''Boy Book See'' (2002)

Other texts

*''Chute'' (1998, French play/monologue commissioned by the Traverse Theatre) *''Pipelines'' (2000, prose and poetry text to accompany Anne Bevan's exhibition "undercovered") *''Monster'' (2002, opera libretto for Sally Beamish and Scottish Opera) *''Rosengarten'' (2004, a book of prose and poetry, matched with an exhibition of obstetrical implements by Anne Bevan) *''This is Not About Me'' (2008, "anti-memoir/ true novel" listed by publisher as ''memoir'') *''All Made Up'' (2012, "anti-memoir/ true novel" listed by publisher as ''memoir'')

References

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* * includes a "Critical Perspective" section {{DEFAULTSORT:Galloway, Janice 1955 births Living people People educated at Ardrossan Academy People from Saltcoats Scottish women novelists 20th-century Scottish women writers 21st-century Scottish women writers 20th-century Scottish novelists 21st-century Scottish novelists 20th-century British short story writers 21st-century British short story writers