© Jonny Pickles
Jasmine Donahaye
I’m an award-winning author, conflict coach and mediator with a background in publishing, and twenty years of experience teaching creative writing in higher education.
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I believe that the more we are in charge of our self-expression, the more we are empowered to act effectively for ourselves and for others. I believe deeply in the potential for individual and social change through writing, and in the potential for transforming conflict. Those convictions drive all the work I do.​
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I offer conflict coaching for individuals in dispute with others or dealing with inner dilemmas, and a range of services and support to writers and organisations. ​
What I offer
What I write
My writing explores the challenges of dealing with contested narratives, and has been published in the New York Times, the Guardian and the London Magazine, and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. My publications include the award-winning Birdsplaining: a Natural History and Losing Israel, and other works of creative nonfiction, poetry, fiction and scholarly research.
Contact me
Do you want to get in touch? Please contact me in any of the following ways:
jasmine[at]jasminedonahaye.co.uk
​+44 7436138978
Mae croeso i chi gysylltu â fi yn Gymraeg, a byddwn i’n hapus i drafod unrhyw beth drwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg.
For enquiries about my writing, and for media or festival appearances, please contact my agent, Thérèse Coen, at Susanna Lea Associates.
Books
Birdsplaining:
A Natural History
New Welsh Rarebyte, 2023
Parthian, 2025
Shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2024
"With the thoughtfulness at work in this collection, Donahaye’s essays create their own ecological niche"
— Karen Lloyd, Caught by the River
Losing Israel
Seren, 2015
Winner, Creative Non-Fiction Wales Book of the Year, 2016
Selected as one of the Sunday Telegraph’s Best Travel Books of 2015
"Losing Israel weaves together memoir, travel, politics and birdwatching. It’s a brave book, unflinchingly honest, and a beautiful one."
— Michael Kerr, Sunday Telegraph
Reviews
"With this new collection she establishes herself as an assured, challenging and brave voice, unafraid of confronting difficult issues"
Sue Hubbard, Poetry London
"... beautifully-written poems – all easy control and allusive storytelling"
Daisy Fried, Poetry
"Donahaye writes only in packed yet economical free verse, as if in her the Hemingway of the sketches in In Our Time had melded with the concerns and fervor of, say, Sharon Olds”
Ray Olson, Booklist