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Karen McLeod is a writer, performer and creative writing tutor and writer-in-residence at Bookseller Crow. Her debut novel, In Search of the Missing Eyelash, was published by Jonathan Cape and won the Betty Trask Award and was translated widely. In June 2024 it has been celebrated by being republished by Muswell Press.
She wrote In Search of the Missing Eyelash in hotel rooms across the globe while working as cabin crew. Coming full circle, her memoir, Lifting Off (Muswell Press, June 2024) is about the years she worked, and went into free-fall, as cabin crew. You can order a signed copy of Lifting Off here.
When she's not writing, or talking about writing, or thinking about writing, she can be found treading the creaky boards at theatres, cabaret clubs and pubs as the self-appointed Poet Laureate of Penge, Barbara Brownskirt.
Described by The Sunday Times as "Rik Mayall meets performance art" Barbara Brownskirt regularly tours UK festivals, art, cabaret and theatre venues with LGBTQ+ Literary salon POLARI, the performance art co-operative DUCKIE, as well as partnering with organisations such as Homotopia, Liverpool Pride, London & Manchester Pride.
Employed as Writer-in-Residence at the Bookseller Crow, Karen has developed a series of popular creative writing workshops which she runs at the bookshop and tours nationwide. She has worked with Shakespeare's archive trust and is a tutor for the Arvon Foundation. She holds an MA in Creative & Life Writing from Goldsmiths University, after being awarded the Isaac Arthur Green Scholarship. She is represented by Laura Susijn at The Susijn Literary Agency.
She wrote In Search of the Missing Eyelash in hotel rooms across the globe while working as cabin crew. Coming full circle, her memoir, Lifting Off (Muswell Press, June 2024) is about the years she worked, and went into free-fall, as cabin crew. You can order a signed copy of Lifting Off here.
When she's not writing, or talking about writing, or thinking about writing, she can be found treading the creaky boards at theatres, cabaret clubs and pubs as the self-appointed Poet Laureate of Penge, Barbara Brownskirt.
Described by The Sunday Times as "Rik Mayall meets performance art" Barbara Brownskirt regularly tours UK festivals, art, cabaret and theatre venues with LGBTQ+ Literary salon POLARI, the performance art co-operative DUCKIE, as well as partnering with organisations such as Homotopia, Liverpool Pride, London & Manchester Pride.
Employed as Writer-in-Residence at the Bookseller Crow, Karen has developed a series of popular creative writing workshops which she runs at the bookshop and tours nationwide. She has worked with Shakespeare's archive trust and is a tutor for the Arvon Foundation. She holds an MA in Creative & Life Writing from Goldsmiths University, after being awarded the Isaac Arthur Green Scholarship. She is represented by Laura Susijn at The Susijn Literary Agency.
