Janice Galloway

Janice Galloway was born in Ayrshire in 1955 where she worked as a teacher for 10 years. Her first novel, The Trick is to Keep Breathing, was published in 1990 to much critical acclaim and is considered a modern Scottish Classic. The many awards bestowed on Janice Galloway have included Scottish Arts Council Book Award, the MIND/Allan Lane Book of the Year, EM Forster award. In 2006, Janice won the Robert Louis Stevenson Award to write at Hotel Chevillon in Grez sur Loing, and in 2007, was the first Scottish recipient of the Jura Writer’s Retreat.