Josie Barnard

Josie Barnard

Biography

Dr. Josie Barnard is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing with Journalism at Middlesex University. Her academic research interests are represented by her monograph The Multimodal Writer: Creative Writing across Media and Genres (in press), and she has specialist areas in employability and social media, subjects on which she has published including in the Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing and the National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE) journal Writing in Education. She is the author of five Virago books, including the Betty Trask award-winning novel Poker Face and the creative non-fiction The Book of Friendship, which was praised by Michele Roberts as ‘fascinating and discerning’ (Observer). Her print and broadcast journalism includes features and programmes for outlets such as the Guardian, the Independent, the Times Literary Supplement and BBC Radio 4.