Jackie Kay

Oonagh Jaquest talks multi-award-winning author Jackie Kay, MBE, whose work The Lamplighter, a long poem to commemorate the abolition of the slave trade, was published in September by Bloodaxe.

Her most recent collection of short stories, Wish I Was Here won the Decibel British Book Award. She has won the Guardian Fiction Prize for her novel Trumpet, and a Forward Prize for her collection of poetry The Adoption Papers.