Biography | Alison Fell

Scottish poet Alison Fell, © Ivan Coleman

Biography

• Born in Dumfries, 1944
• Scottish poet and novelist
• Graduated from Edinburgh Art University
• Wrote for Scotland Magazine
• Moved to London in 1970, founded Women’s Street Theatre Group
• In 1998 she held the School of English and American Studies Writing Fellowship at the University of East Anglia.
• In 2003 her play Mapping the Edge was adapted to BBC Radio 3.

Works

• 2005 Lightyear, photographs by Ivan Coleman, Smokestack Books
• 2003 Tricks of the Light, Doubleday
• 1999 The Mistress of Lilliput, Doubleday
• 1997 Dreams, Like Heretics: New and Selected Poems, Serpent’s Tail
• 1995 Shouting It Out: Stories from Contemporary Scotland, contributor, Hodder & Stoughton Educational
• 1994 The Pillow Boy of the Lady Onogoro, Serpent’s Tail
• 1992 Serious Hysterics, Serpent’s Tail
• 1991 Mer de Glace, Methuen
• 1990 The Seven Cardinal Virtues, editor, Serpent’s Tail
• 1988 The Seven Deadly Sins, editor, Serpent’s Tail
• 1988 The Crystal Owl, Methuen
• 1987 The Bad Box, Virago
• 1984 Kisses for Mayakovsky, Virago
• 1984 Every Move You Make, Virago
• 1981 The Grey Dancer, Collins
• 1980 Smile, Smile, Smile, Smile, contributor, Sheba
• 1979 Hard Feelings, editor and illustrator, Women’s Press

Awards

• 1991 Boardman Tasker Memorial Prize, Mer de Glace, joint winner
• 1984 Alice Hunt Bartlett Award, Kisses for Mayakovsky
• 2002-3 Royal Literary Fund Fellowship

Related articles

• GCSE Poetry Revision | ‘August 6, 1945′ by Alison Fell (smartenglishrevision.wordpress.com)