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Biography
Genevieve Carver is a writer, performer and arts educator.
She is the author of A Beautiful Way to be Crazy (Verve Poetry Press 2020), Landsick (Broken Sleep Books 2023) and Birds / Humans / Machines / Dolphins (Guillemot Press 2024). Her poetry has appeared in journals including Mslexia, The White Review, The North, Magma and Poetry News, and she won The Moth Nature Writing Prize 2022, judged by Max Porter
Genevieve performs regularly at prestigious events and venues including music festivals, theatres and literature festivals. Previous appearances include Shambala music festival, Underbelly at the Edinburgh Fringe, The Roundhouse, The Royal Albert Hall, Cheltenham Literature Festival, Ilkley Literature Festival and Banff Mountain Book Festival in Canada.
Genevieve has been commissioned to write poetry, theatre and television for organisations including The National Portrait Gallery, Sky TV, Apples & Snakes and the University of Aberdeen.
She is currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Aberdeen, and also works as a freelance arts educator delivering creative writing and performance workshops to schools, universities, and community groups.