Who's who
Anna Kiernan
Head of the Department of Writing
Anna
Kiernan is Head of the Department of Writing. Previously, she was Senior
Lecturer in Journalism and Course Leader of the MA in Publishing in Kingston University. During her six years at
Kingston Anna taught and managed many courses, from Non-fiction Writing to
Photojournalism, and launched the Publishing MA in 2006.
In
journalism she has worked as a freelance writer and editor for, among others, The Guardian,
The Bookseller, The Times Literary Supplement,
The Big Issue and Private Eye. She specialises in arts
journalism and critical approaches to journalism and was deputy editor of Pluk: Photography in London the UK and
Europe. Formerly a panel member of the Welsh Books Council, Anna is now an artistic assessor for the Arts Council.
Anna has worked with many leading journalists, critics and writers and has
worked as an editor of fiction and non-fiction at publishers such as André
Deutsch and Simon & Schuster. She put together the anti-war anthology Voices
for Peace (Scribner, 2001: London: New York) in a month after 9/11 for
which she commissioned public figures and writers such as Adhaf Soueif, Paul
Foot, Ronan Bennett and Matthew Parris, and was commended for her excellent
editorship in The Times. Her most
recent anthology Bit on the Side: Work, Sex, Love, Loss and Own Goals (Parthian,
2007) was serialised twice, in The Mail
and The Independent.
Anna read English at Sussex, took an MA in Arts Criticism at City University, has a PGCE from the Institute of Education and is currently working on a PhD at Goldsmiths in literature and life writing.
Anna was a co-investigator on the AHRC-funded oral history project Museum Lives at the Natural History Museum where her work included directing a short film which was shown at The National Gallery.
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