Kirstin Innes | |
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![]() Innes in 2014 | |
Born | 1980 (age 44–45) Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
Occupation | Novelist, journalist |
Alma mater | University of Aberdeen |
Partner | Alan Bissett |
Children | 2 |
Kirstin Innes (born 1980) is a Scottish novelist and journalist. [1]
Innes was born in Edinburgh in 1980, and raised by a single mother. [2] She attended James Gillespie's High School and then University of Aberdeen.[ citation needed ]
In 2005, Innes moved to Glasgow to work at The Arches. She also worked as Assistant Editor at The List. [3]
Innes's writing is influenced by her mother and grandmother's left-wing politics. [2]
Innes's debut novel, Fishnet (2019), won The Guardian's Not The Booker Prize in 2015 [4] and was praised by The New York Times for its depiction of sex workers as "women with rich inner lives and interests". [5] Innes has written about how her friendship with the sex workers' rights activist Laura Lee influenced the novel. [6]
Her second novel, Scabby Queen, was published by 4th Estate in 2020. It was longlisted for the 2020 Gordon Burn Prize. [7]
In November 2021, Salmander Street published Brickwork: A Biography of The Arches , co-written by Innes and former The Arches colleague David Bratchpiece. [8] [9]
Innes' partner is the author and playwright Alan Bissett, with whom she has two children. [1] The couple, who met in 2007, have discussed their experiences with IVF publicly with the aim of reducing the stigma around infertility. [10]
Year | Title | Publisher | ISBN | Note |
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2019 | Fishnet | Scout Press | ISBN 9781982116156 | |
2020 | Scabby Queen | Fourth Estate | ISBN 9780008342296 | |
Brickwork: A Biography of The Arches | Salamander Street | To be published in 2021 [8] |