
Born in the northwest of England in 1981, S. C. Gordon is a Liverpool-based writer, translator, and editor whose first poetry collection, Peckham Blue, was published in London by Penned in the Margins in 2006; her second collection, Harbouring, came out in November 2015 under Math Paper Press in Singapore. Her poetry, fiction and non-fiction have been published in anthologies and journals such as United Verses (2014), Unsavory Elements (Earnshaw, 2013), Middle Kingdom Underground (HAL, 2011), Unshod Quills (2011), Junoesq (2015), and The May Anthologies 10th Anniversary edition (2003). She was part of the Royal Court Theatre’s young writers’ programme from 2007 until 2008, and was a finalist and runner-up in British Vogue’s young writers’ competition in 2004 and 2005. She has a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Liverpool, a BA in English from the University of Oxford, and is the founder of the Jewish press OfTheBook. Her debut novel The Gold Gang is forthcoming from Claret Press in 2025.
Born in the northwest of England in 1981, S. C. Gordon is a Liverpool-based writer, translator, and editor whose first poetry collection, Peckham Blue, was published in London by Penned in the Margins in 2006; her second collection, Harbouring, came out in November 2015 under Math Paper Press in Singapore. Her poetry, fiction and non-fiction have been published in anthologies and journals such as United Verses (2014), Unsavory Elements (Earnshaw, 2013), Middle Kingdom Underground (HAL, 2011), Unshod Quills (2011), Junoesq (2015), and The May Anthologies 10th Anniversary edition (2003). She was part of the Royal Court Theatre’s young writers’ programme from 2007 until 2008, and was a finalist and runner-up in British Vogue’s young writers’ competition in 2004 and 2005. She has a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Liverpool, a BA in English from the University of Oxford, and is the founder of the Jewish press OfTheBook. Her debut novel The Gold Gang is forthcoming from Claret Press in 2025.