Author: Davina Quinlivan

Davina Quinlivan is author of Shalimar: A Story of Place and Migration (Little Toller, 2022) and Lecturer in the Department of English and Creative Writing at the University of Exeter. She was Writer in Residence with Quay Words/Literature Works (Spring 2023). For several years, she has run a series of film and creative writing seminars at The Freud Museum and is also part of the founding teaching ensemble at The New School of the Anthropocene. Her creative writing has appeared in Litro, The Willowherb Review, Caught by the River and The Clearing. She is also the author of several academic monographs including The Place of Breath in Cinema and Filming the Body in Crisis. Davina is now working on a follow-up to Shalimar, a pamphlet of poetry and a novel set between Cornwall and the Black Sea. Follow her on Instagram @qdavina and Twitter @DQuinlivanB