Bio
Kay Farrell (UK) worked at award-winning publisher Sandstone Press for seven years, editing fiction and non-fiction across a range of subjects. She is particularly proud of having edited the English-language edition of Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi, which won the Man Booker International Prize. Other titles she edited include the Betty Trask Award and Guardian ‘Not the Booker’ winner Sweet Fruit, Sour Land by Rebecca Ley; and Bump, Bike and Baby by Moira O’Sullivan, longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year. In 2019 Kay was selected as a Bookseller Rising Star and Saltire Society Emerging Publisher of the Year. In 2021 she was inducted into the Edinburgh Napier University Alumni Hall of Fame.
Kay Farrell (UK) worked at award-winning publisher Sandstone Press for seven years, editing fiction and non-fiction across a range of subjects. She is particularly proud of having edited the English-language edition of Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi, which won the Man Booker International Prize. Other titles she edited include the Betty Trask Award and Guardian ‘Not the Booker’ winner Sweet Fruit, Sour Land by Rebecca Ley; and Bump, Bike and Baby by Moira O’Sullivan, longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year. In 2019 Kay was selected as a Bookseller Rising Star and Saltire Society Emerging Publisher of the Year. In 2021 she was inducted into the Edinburgh Napier University Alumni Hall of Fame.
