Dr Nell Stevens
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Director, Warwick Writing ProgrammeAssociate Professor in Creative WritingTeaching Focus: FictionSchool of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures Location: Faculty of Arts Building BiographyDr Nell Stevens FRSL is an award-winning author of fiction and memoir. She is Associate Professor in Creative Writing and Director of the Warwick Writing Programme. Her books are the novels Briefly, A Delicious Life (2022) and The Original (2025), the memoirs Bleaker House (2017) and Mrs Gaskell and Me (2018), published in North America as The Victorian and the Romantic, and the short-story collection The Good Time (2026). Her work has been awarded the Somerset Maugham Award, longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, and shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award, the James Tait Black Prize and the Nota Bene Prize. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2026. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in publications including The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Granta, Vogue and The Guardian. Awards and recognition
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Research interestsNell’s research interests include contemporary and historical fiction, with a particular focus on queer narratives and the relationship between archival research and creative practice. Her current work explores erasure and the climate crisis. Teaching and supervisionNell teaches fiction across the Warwick Writing Programme at undergraduate and postgraduate level. She has supervised PhDs to completion, in historical and contemporary fiction, and has supported candidates in successful applications for AHRC doctoral funding. Nell welcomes enquiries from prospective PhD students working on queer fiction, historical fiction and fiction of the climate crisis. Supervision enquiries should be sent FAO Nell Stevens to scapvcenquiries@warwick.ac.uk. |