Lynda Clark

Lynda Clark is Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh. Lynda is primarily interested in how new technologies shape us and the world around us. This manifests in her prose, interactive narratives and video game work. She also has a keen interest in depicting unusual and disordered voices in creative writing.

Biography

Lynda Clark's first novel Beyond Kidding (2019, Fairlight Books) was optioned by Film4 and is in development with Top Boy director William Stefan Smith attached. Her short story collection Dreaming in Quantum was published by Fairlight Books in 2021 and includes the highly acclaimed 'Ghillie's Mum' which won the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Europe and Canada and was shortlisted in the 2019 BBC Short Story Award.

Prior to joining academia, Lynda worked as a bookseller and in the video game industry as a writer and producer. She grew up on a council estate and is the first (and currently remains the only) member of her extended family to attend university.

She has a PhD in interactive narrative from Nottingham Trent University and is interested in writing with and for new technologies.