About
Jasmine Donahaye’s book Birdsplaining: a Natural History (2023) was featured at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the Oxford Literary Festival, the Kendal Mountain Festival and the Hay Festival, among others. In 2020, her work appeared in the Modern Love column in the New York Times, and her memoir, Losing Israel (2015), won the non-fiction category of Wales Book of the Year in 2016. ‘Theft’ , a short story, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature’s V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize.
Before taking up her part-time post at Swansea University, she worked in the publishing sector and as Publishing Grants Officer at the Welsh Books Council.
She is a Professor of Creative Writing, and her publications include narrative non-fiction, fiction, poetry, and cultural criticism. She was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2017, and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.