Daisy Lafarge is a writer and artist based in Glasgow, UK. Born in Hastings, she has lived in Scotland since 2011.

She is the author of the novel Paul (Granta 2021; Riverhead 2022), which won a Betty Trask Award and was a New York Times Editor’s 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. Lovebug, a book on the poetics of infection, was published by Peninsula Press in 2023.

Her reviews and essays on ecology, art and literature have been widely published, appearing in Granta, LitHub, The New York Times, Art Review, TANK Magazine, The White Review, and elsewhere.

Daisy’s visual work has been exhibited at Tate St Ives, Talbot Rice Gallery, Serpentine Galleries’ online programme and elsewhere, and twice acquired by the University of Edinburgh Art Collection. In 2024 Daisy was selected for the SHAPE x Creative Scotland Emerging Disabled Artist Award to support the development of new work. 

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