Gwendoline Riley

Title: Lecturer
Phone: 33882
Email:
Location: CBB2.055
Role: Lecturer in Creative Writing
Contacting me: By email - I am on campus on Mondays, and occasionally on other days.

Gwendoline Riley is the author of four novels: Cold Water, Sick Notes, Joshua Spassky and Opposed Positions.

Her first book,Cold Water, was named one of the five outstanding debut novels of 2002 by The Guardian 'Weekend' magazine and also won a Betty Trask Award.  Joshua Spassky won the 2008 Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the 2007 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Riley was also a recipient of the Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship in 2011.

Her fourth novel, Opposed Positions, was published in May 2012.

Gwendoline teaches undergraduate and postgraduate Creative Writing. In 2013-14, she will mainly be working with MA and PhD students specialising in Prose Fiction or Life Writing.