The American University of Paris, the University of Kent Paris School of Arts and Culture and the Centre Culturel Irlandais (Irish Arts Center) are pleased to announce that Sophie Mackintosh has been appointed to the third Paris Writer鈥檚 Residency. We look forward to welcoming her to the French capital to work with students at both our universities and to join our community of writers.
Sophie Mackintosh is a writer from Wales, currently based in London. Her debut novel,聽The Water Cure, was longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker prize, shortlisted for the Collyer Bristow prize, and won a Betty Trask award. In 2016 she won聽The White Review聽short story prize, and her fiction, essays and poetry have been published by the聽New York Times, Granta, and the聽Stinging Fly,聽among others. Her next novel,聽Blue Ticket,聽will be published in May 2020 by Hamish Hamilton and June 2020 by Doubleday.