List Of Writers

DONAHAYE, JASMINE

Email: jdonahaye@gmail.com or at the Welsh Books Council: jasmine.donahaye@cllc.org.uk
Castell Brychan, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 2JB 
Tel: 01970 624 151

Jasmine Donahaye’s collection Misappropriations, published by Parthian, was short-listed for the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize in 2006, and her poetry won the Joan Lee Yang Memorial Poetry Prize in 2000 and an Ina Coolbrith Memorial Prize in 1999. She is currently working on a collection entitled The Collective Wound.

She was educated at the University of California at Berkeley, where her mentors were the poets Thom Gunn and Robert Hass, and at Swansea University. Her publications on Israel/Palestine and Welsh/Jewish connections and interactions have appeared in Wales, England and the US.

Selected Publications:
Misappropriations (Parthian, 2006)
Caves of Alienation (Parthian, 2008)

Contributed to:
Beyond the Difference: Welsh Literature in Comparative Contexts (contributor) (University of Wales Press, 2004)
Eunice Fleet by Lily Tobias (editor) (Honno, 2004)
‘The Jew’ in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa (contributor) (Palgrave, 2007)
Slanderous Tongues: Essays on Welsh Poetry in English 1970 – 2000 (contributor) (Seren, 2007)
British Jewish Women Writers: 1880-1980 (contributor) (Wayne State University Press, 2007)