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Jasmine Donahaye
I’m an award-winning author and accredited mediator with a background in publishing, and twenty years of experience teaching creative writing in higher education.
I believe fundamentally in the potential for individual and social change through writing. I believe that the more we have control of written language, the more we are empowered to act effectively for ourselves and for others. That conviction drives all the work I do.
I offer one-to-one writer support, a range of writing workshops, and a suite of editorial and consultancy services for publishers and other businesses.
What I offer
Who I am
My writing 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 many 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
Croeso i chi gysylltu â fi yn Gymraeg. Nid ydw i’n cynnig gwasanaeth ar gyfer ysgrifennu neu cyhoeddu yn Gymraeg, ond byddwn i’n falch iawn i drafod unrhywbeth 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