Rodge Glass is the author of eight books published since 2005: three novels (No Fireworks [Faber & Faber, 2005], Hope for Newborns [Faber & Faber, 2008] and Bring Me the Head of Ryan Giggs [Serpent’s Tail, 2013]), one graphic novel (Dougie’s War, with Dave Turbitt), one collection of short stories (LoveSexTravelMusik: Stories for the EasyJet Generation [Freight Books, 2013]), two biographies (Alasdair Gray: A Secretary’s Biography and Michel Faber: The Writer and His Work) and now Joshua in the Sky: A Blood Memoir (Taproot Press, September 2024). His work has been nominated for multiple national or international awards including the Dylan Thomas Prize, Saltire Award and Authors’ Club Award, while his various fictions have been translated into Italian, Serbian and Spanish. He is the winner of a Somerset Maugham Award for Nonfiction for his biography of Alasdair Gray, has written children’s audio stories for BBC Sounds in 2023 and 2024, and recently won the Anne Brown Essay Prize, for ‘On the Covenant’, which is a chapter from Joshua in the Sky.
Contact: Department of Humanities, University of Strathclyde, 16 Richmond Street, Glasgow G1 1XQ, UK.
