Harry Josephine Giles

Harry Josephine Giles is a Scottish poet, performer, and author who won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Deep Wheel Orcadia (2022), a novel written entirely in Orkney Scots dialect—a remarkable and unprecedented achievement for a Clarke winner. The novel is set in a future space station community and explores questions of migration, belonging, and indigenous identity. Giles was born in Orkney, Scotland, and is non-binary. Their work spans poetry, performance art, and fiction. Deep Wheel Orcadia began as a book of poems and was recognized for its extraordinary linguistic invention. The Clarke Award for Deep Wheel Orcadia was notable for recognizing a work that had been published by a small Scottish independent press. Giles continues to live and work in Scotland.