Claire Askew (born 10 March 1986) is a Scottish novelist and poet.
[3] Her latest book, How to Burn a Woman, is a collection of poems featuring outcast women through history,[4] including witches, which Askew herself identifies as.
[5] The first book in her crime fiction series, which follows the work of DI Helen Birch, All the Hidden Truths, won the inaugural Bloody Scotland Scottish Crime Debut of the Year in 2019.
In addition, the book was the winner of the 2016 Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize,[6] shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger and Debut Dagger awards,[7] and longlisted for the 2014 Peggy Chapman-Andrews (Bridport) Novel Award.
Askew has also published three collections of poetry, The Mermaid and the Sailors (Red Squirrel Press, 2011), which won the 2010 Virginia Warbey Poetry Prize,[9] This Changes Things (Bloodaxe, 2016) and How to burn a Woman (Bloodaxe, 2021).