Kerry Young
Dr. Kerry Young is the author of Pao (Bloomsbury, 2011) and Gloria (Bloomsbury, 2013).
- Pao was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, the Commonwealth Book Prize and the East Midlands Book Award.
- Gloria was shortlisted for the East Midlands Book Award, longlisted for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature and nominated for the 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
- Kerry is currently working on her third novel for Bloomsbury.
Kerry is a Reader for The Literary Consultancy, a tutor for the Arvon Foundation and a Fellow on the Royal Literary Fund Fellowship Programme where she is writer-in-residence at the University of Sheffield.
She is also Honorary Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Nottingham.
