Biography Janice Galloway Janice Galloway was born in 1956 in Saltcoats, Scotland and read Music and English at Glasgow University. She took a year out and worked briefly as a Welfare Rights Officer for Strathclyde Regional Council (1976-7) before returning to Glasgow to complete her degree. Between 1980 and 1989 she worked as an English teacher, afterwards attending a writers' class at Glasgow University. Her acclaimed first novel, The Trick is To Keep Breathing (1989), a bleak story of alienation set on a council estate in Glasgow, won the MIND Book of the Year/Allen Lane Award and a Scottish Arts Council Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize. It was adapted for the stage by Michael Boyd and has been performed in Glasgow, London and Toronto. In 1994 she was awarded the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her second novel, Foreign Parts (1994), describes two women's adventures on a driving holiday through northern France and won the McVitie's Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year. Clara, about the 19th-century musician Clara Schumann, published in 2002, won the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award.

She is the author of two collections of short stories: Blood (1991), which was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize and the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award, and was named as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; and Where You Find It (1996), a series of narratives exploring relationships. In 1999 she was the Times Literary Supplement Research Fellow to the British Library, and recently she has worked with the composer Sally Beamish on an opera libretto, Monster, based on the life of Mary Shelley, which was performed in Glasgow in the spring of 2002.
In 2002 she was awarded a Scottish Arts Council Creative Scotland Award in order to work on a collaboration with visual artist Anne Bevan. Rosengarten incorporates text and sculpture, 'throwing a new perspective on the medical processes surrounding women', and now forms part of the permanent collection at the Hunterian Gallery, Glasgow.

Her work for BBC radio includes the two-part series, Life as a Man, the seven-part series, Imagined Lives, and, most recently, In Wordsworth's Footsteps.

Her latest book is This is Not About Me (2008), a memoir.

Janice Galloway has one son and lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland.

Bibliography

J. F. Hendry, Poet, Novelist   (contributor)   Chapman, 1988

The Trick is To Keep Breathing   Polygon, 1989

New Writing Scotland 8: The Day I Met the Queen Mother   (co-editor with Hamish Whyte)   Aberdeen University Press, 1990

Blood   Secker & Warburg, 1991

Meantime   (co-editor with Women 2000)   Polygon, 1991

New Writing Scotland 9: Scream If You Want to Go Faster   (co-editor with Hamish Whyte)   Aberdeen University Press, 1991

A Parcel of Rogues   Clocktower Press, 1992

New Writing Scotland 10: Pig, Squealing   (co-editor with Hamish Whyte)   Aberdeen University Press, 1992

Women in Scottish Literature   (contributor)   Chapman, 1993

Foreign Parts   Cape, 1994

Writers in Scotland   (contributor)   Hodder & Stoughton, 1994

Nothing is Altogether Trivial: An Anthology of Writing from 'Edinburgh Review'   (contributor)   Edinburgh University Press, 1995

Penguin Book of Contemporary Women's Short Stories   (contributor)   Penguin, 1995

Shouting It Out: Stories from Contemporary Scotland   (contributor)   Hodder & Stoughton, 1995

Telling Stories 4   (contributor)   Sceptre, 1995

Mind Readings: Writers' Journeys Through Mental States   (contributor)   Minerva, 1996

Soho Square: Scottish Anthology VII   (contributor)   Bloomsbury, 1996

Where You Find It   Cape, 1996

Ahead of its Time   (contributor)   Cape, 1997

Picador Book of Scottish Fiction   (contributor)   Picador, 1997

Scottish Literature Since 1707   (contributor)   Addison Wesley Longman, 1997

A Second Skin: Women Write About Clothes   (contributor)   Women's Press, 1998

Chute   (play)   Editions Solaires Intempestifs, Paris, 1998

Pipelines   Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 2000

New Writing 10   (contributor)   Picador, 2001

Boy book see   Mariscat Press, 2002

Clara   Cape, 2002

Granta 76: Music   (contributor)   Granta, 2002

Monster   (libretto)   SMIC, 2002

Rosengarten   (with Anne Bevan)   Platform Projects, 2006

This is Not About Me   Granta, 2008

Prizes and awards

1989   Whitbread First Novel Award   (shortlist)   The Trick is To Keep Breathing

1990   Irish Times International Fiction Prize   (shortlist)   The Trick Is To Keep Breathing

1990   MIND Book of the Year/Allen Lane Award   The Trick Is To Keep Breathing

1990   Scottish Arts Council Book Award   The Trick Is To Keep Breathing

1991   Cosmopolitan/Perrier Awards   short story from 'Blood'

1991   Guardian Fiction Prize   (shortlist)   Blood

1991   New York Times Notable Book of the Year   Blood

1991   Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award   (shortlist)   Blood

1994   E. M. Forster Award   (American Academy of Arts and Letters)

1994   McVitie's Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year   Foreign Parts

2002   Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia Region, Best Book)   (shortlist)   Clara

2002   Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award   Clara

2002   Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award   (shortlist)   Clara

2002   Scottish Arts Council Creative Scotland Award

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