Writer, cultural critic and scholar, Jay Prosser is driven by how we can connect personal stories with cultural history, in order to answer some of the big questions of our time. His completed book now seeking a publisher, The Camphorwood Chest: A Legacy of Loving Strangers, is winner of BIO's Hazel Rowley Prize and was shortlisted for the Tony Lothian Prize, both for the best unpublished biography.
Jay's writing has been published in december, Tablet, Jewish Renaissance, JewThink, and The Jewish Writing Project, among other places. His life writing essays have recently received honourable mentions in the Curt Johnson Prose Prize and the Spread the Word Life Writing Prize.
As Reader in Humanities at the University of Leeds, where he has taught students in many areas for over 20 years, Jay has written and edited several academic books, on topics from transsexual life stories, to photographs of loss. He has led a number of award-winning international research projects, which have given him the opportunity to collaborate internationally with artists, musicians, journalists, and many cultural and charity organisations.
Jay was a Fulbright Scholar at the City University of New York, from where he received his PhD. He is now spending more time on his own writing, with plans for more creative projects after he has published The Camphorwood Chest.
