{"id":1466,"date":"2014-08-19T17:10:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T17:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aber.ac.uk\/devolvedvoices\/?page_id=1466"},"modified":"2018-04-19T16:16:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T15:16:11","slug":"interview-zoe-brigley","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/devolved-voices\/media\/interview-zoe-brigley\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Zo\u00eb Brigley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2281\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/devolved-voices\/files\/2014\/08\/profile-pic-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/devolved-voices\/files\/2014\/08\/profile-pic-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/devolved-voices\/files\/2014\/08\/profile-pic-300x300-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nZo\u00eb Brigley was born in 1981 and grew up in Caerphilly in the Rhymney Valley. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2003 and received a Welsh Academy Bursary in 2005. Her first book of poems, <em>The Secret <\/em>(Bloodaxe Books, 2007), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2008. Her second collection, <em>Conquest<\/em> (Bloodaxe Books, 2012), is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. She is also the co-editor of a volume of scholarly essays, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.routledge.com\/books\/details\/9780415806084\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Feminism, Literature and Rape Narratives <\/em><\/a>(Routledge, 2010), and a collection of women\u2019s poetry, <em>Bluebeard\u2019s Wives<\/em> (Heaventree, 2007). She has taught creative writing at Warwick University and at University of Northampton, and begins teaching at Ohio State University in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Zo\u00eb Brigley&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/zoebrigley.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a><br \/>\nZo\u00eb Brigley on<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZoeBrigley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Twitter<\/a><br \/>\nZo\u00eb Brigley on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/zoebrigley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a><br \/>\nZo\u00eb Brigley on <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/zbtusa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a><br \/>\nZo\u00eb Brigley on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/4582080.Zo_Brigley_Thompson_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Goodreads<\/a><br \/>\nZo\u00eb Brigley&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/osu.academia.edu\/Zo\u00ebBrigleyThompson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Academia profile<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Select Bibliography:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodaxebooks.com\/titlepage.asp?isbn=1852247878\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Secret<\/em><\/a> (Bloodaxe, 2007) ISBN 9781852247874<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodaxebooks.com\/titlepage.asp?isbn=1852249307\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Conquest<\/em> <\/a>(Bloodaxe, 2012) ISBN\u00a09781852249304<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bu0AJsEuep4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZhDPu8r8p74?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>The views and opinions of interviewees are their own, and are not necessarily those of Devolved Voices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zo\u00eb Brigley was born in 1981 and grew up in Caerphilly in the Rhymney Valley. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2003 and received a Welsh Academy Bursary in 2005. Her first book of poems, The Secret (Bloodaxe Books, 2007), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/devolved-voices\/media\/interview-zoe-brigley\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Interview: Zo\u00eb Brigley&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13396,"featured_media":0,"parent":19,"menu_order":18,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1466","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9R2R9-nE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/devolved-voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/devolved-voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/devolved-voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/devolved-voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/devolved-voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/devolved-voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2282,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/devolved-voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1466\/revisions\/2282"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/devolved-voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/devolved-voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}