Daisy Hay is Associate Professor in English Literature and Life Writing at the University of Exeter and an author of non-fiction.
[1] In 2014, Hay was selected as one of the BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council New Generation Thinkers, a group of ten academics from eight universities chosen to turn their academic ideas into BBC radio and television programmes.
[3] Hay was awarded the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for literary scholarship by the British Academy, for her first book Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives, published in 2010.
Hay used the award to write a research project examining the emergence of English Romanticism.
It is published simultaneously in London by Chatto and Windus and in the United States by Princeton University Press.