Carole Burns is an American writer living in Cardiff for more than 15 years, whose debut novel, “The Same Country” (Legend, 2023), explores family, friendship, racism, privilege and the risks we take to unravel the truth. The author Gish Jen wrote: “The Same Country unearths long-buried truths that remain the truths of America.” In a review for nation.cymru, Niall Griffiths called it “a slow and considered and cogitative story with a frenzied heartbreak at its core.” “The Same Country” was named one of the best Welsh fiction books of 2023 by the Wales Arts Review.
A freelancer for publications including the Washington Post, Electric Literature and LitHub, she was the winner of Ploughshares’ John C. Zacharis Award for her collection, The Missing Woman and Other Stories. Her book, Off the Page: Writers Talk About Beginnings, Endings, and Everything in Between, was based on interviews with forty-three writers including Jhumpa Lahiri and Colm Tóibín. She is an Associate Professor in English at the University of Southampton, where she teaches Creative Writing to MA and BA students. She also founded and directs the Writers in Conversation reading series.
