Daisy Lafarge is a writer 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 Editors’ 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.

She has a PhD from the University of Glasgow, and has lectured in literature, writing, and fine art research. She is currently an RLF Fellow at the University of Glasgow.

Her writing on ecology, art and literature has been widely published, appearing in Granta, Frieze, The Financial Times, Art Review, TANK Magazine, The White Review, and elsewhere.

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