Dr Gill Gregory

writer & retired academic
Biographer, Memoirist, Non-fiction writer, Poet
Available for:
Festivals and other events, Judging, Lecturing and teaching, Live readings and performances, Mentoring, Public speaking, Residencies, School visits, Workshops

I am the author of 4 books, including The Life & Work of Adelaide Procter: poetry, feminism & fathers (Routledge Revivals, 1998/2020); The Sound of Turquoise (award-winning memoir fiction) (KUP, 2009/10) – reviewed in the TLS; In Slow Woods (poetry with cover quote by Michael Morpurgo) (Rufus Books, 2011); The Studio: a psychoanalytic legacy (memoir by way of paintings & ‘random’ readings from my father’s Freud (Free Association Books, 2016) – ‘Recommended Reading’ (Janet Sayers) in Times Higher Education.  My extended essay, Gill Gregory, ‘Dr Hazel Chodak-Gregory’, is a biographical & historical introduction to my late pioneering grandmother’s Infant Welfare (1926), a book about the new Infant Welfare Centres in 1920s London, which is forthcoming with Routledge in 2025.  I am currently writing a book about ‘Laughter in Literature’.  I am available online for mentoring & other activities (see below).