Daisy Lafarge is a writer and artist based in Glasgow, U.K. 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, her book on the poetics of infection, was published by Peninsula Press in 2023.
Her writing on ecology, art and literature has been widely published, appearing in Granta, Frieze, Financial Times, The New York Times, Art Review, TANK Magazine, The White Review, and elsewhere. Lafarge received a Ph.D. from the University of Glasgow in 2021, and has lectured in literature, art writing, and fine art at the University of St Andrews, the Glasgow School of Art, and the Royal College of Art.
While at MacDowell, she worked on a new sequence of poems orbiting the symbol of the rose in traditions of lyric and romance poetry, and addressing the experience of chronic pain and illness. The poems will accompany paintings in an upcoming exhibition titled The Sick Rose.
Portrait by Laynie Browne
