Clare Morgan is a writer, educator and literary critic. She is founder and director of Oxford University’s creative writing programme which has, in the eighteen years since its inception, come to be recognized as among the top creative writing programmes offered globally. She is also a consultant, adviser and speaker on the role of the arts and humanities in influencing and enhancing the culture of private, public and social enterprises.

Her novel A Book for All and None (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) was shortlisted for the Author’s Club best novel award and her short stories have been widely anthologized, and commissioned for BBC Radio 4. Her latest book, Scar Tissue, was longlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2023, and is selected to our 2023 Bookshelf.