Jackie Kay

Jackie Kay was recorded at birth as Jacqueline Margaret Kay. The authorities additionally record the headings Professor Jackie Kay MBE and Jacqueline Margaret Kay. Her recorded language was English.

She was employed by Newcastle University. Recorded positions include chancellor and The Scots Makar. She belonged to Royal Society of Literature and Black Female Professors Forum.

Jackie Kay received Member of the Order of the British Empire, Cholmondeley Award, Lambda Literary Award, Eric Gregory Award, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

36 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service, Open Library, The Art Institute of Chicago and Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1937 to 2020.

Trumpet. The Adoption Papers. Life Mask. Between the Acts. Coorie Doon. Darling. May Day. Mighty Stream. Untitled (Pb). Red, Cherry Red. All Night Bookshop. Adoption Papers. Methuen Drama Book of Plays by Black British Writers. Crossing the Lines. Chiaroscuro. Bessie Smith. Lamplighter. Edwin Morgan Twenties. Year of Scottish Poems. Why Don't You Stop Talking. Bantam. Red Dust Road. Reality, Reality. Wish I Was Here. Untitled. Connections 500. Ten Poems of Kindness. That distance apart, dated 1991. Two's company, dated 1994. Fifty-Fifty, dated 1975, wood and nails, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 2008.209. The seed scandal / Socialist Countryside Group ; [compiled by Kay Fennell and edited by Jacky Smith on behalf of the General Committee of the Socialist Countryside Group]., dated 1987, held by Wellcome Collection. Hospice : complete care for the terminally ill / Jack McKay Zimmerman ; contributions by Paul S. Dawson [and others]., dated 1981, held by Wellcome Collection. How to beat pain., dated 2012, held by Wellcome Collection. If you need free printing for protests / Hato Press., dated 2020, held by Wellcome Collection. Medical care output and productivity / edited by David M. Cutler and Ernst R. Berndt., dated 2001, held by Wellcome Collection. Medawar, Sir Peter Brian (1915-1987), dated 1937-1991, held by Wellcome Collection.

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 2 named public collections.

The Art Institute of Chicago: 1 recorded object, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Wellcome Collection: 6 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

21 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Jackie Kay's Monumental Poetics, Jackie Kay, 2026. Jackie Kay, 2026. Liminality and Intimacy in Jackie Kay's Wish I Was Here, Jackie Kay, 2026. Diversifying Modes of National Identity and Belonging in Jackie Kay's Fiere, Jackie Kay, 2026. Jackie Kay, The Edinburgh Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry, 2005. Autofiction, Colonial Massacres and the Politics of Memory, University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series, 2019. Re-charting the Black Atlantic: Jackie Kay’s Cartographies of the Self, Études Écossaises, 2015. Jackie Kay, James Procter, and Gemma Robinson, eds, Out of Bounds—British Black and Asian Poets, Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, 2013. Mining the Mundane and Finding Gold: Reality, Imagination and the Magical in Jackie Kay’s Short Fiction, Études Écossaises, 2021. “Trust me, I’m telling you my life story”: Queer Return in the memoirs of Jeanette Winterson and Jackie Kay, Forum, 2012. Live/love-streams: poetry and relating at the time of Covid-19, E-REA, 2022. The Woman with the Ibo Nose and the Scottish Tongue: Expressions of Belonging and Return in Jackie Kay’s Writing, Études Écossaises, 2010. TRACING INTERTEXTUALITY: JACKIE KAY’S USE OF SCOTS IN FROM A DRUNK WOMAN LOOKS AT HER NIPPLE, ES Review, 2017. Epistemic Injustice in Generative AI, arXiv. Learning Gentle Object Manipulation with Curiosity-Driven Deep Reinforcement Learning, arXiv. AI Will Always Love You: Studying Implicit Biases in Romantic AI Companions, arXiv. Finetuning from Offline Reinforcement Learning: Challenges, Trade-offs and Practical Solutions, arXiv. Synthetic Counteradaptation: A Principle of Human-AI Co-evolution, arXiv. Fairness for Unobserved Characteristics: Insights from Technological Impacts on Queer Communities, arXiv. Modelling Generalized Forces with Reinforcement Learning for Sim-to-Real Transfer, arXiv. Few-Shot Keypoint Detection as Task Adaptation via Latent Embeddings, arXiv.

8 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by DataCite (arXiv), DataCite (University of Glasgow), DataCite (Acadia University), DataCite (Anglistica AION: An Intersciplinary Journal), DataCite (NUI Galway) and DataCite (Underline Science Inc.).

Toward a Theory of Value in AI Alignment (2026) — DataCite (arXiv). Writing ‘other spaces’: heterotopia in the works of Leila Aboulela, Jackie Kay, and Aminatta Forna (2026) — DataCite (University of Glasgow). Synthetic Counteradaptation: A Principle of Human-AI Co-evolution (2026) — DataCite (arXiv). Hedging and Non-Affirmation: Quantifying LLM Alignment on Questions of Human Rights (2025) — DataCite (arXiv). Transgressing convention : the dialogic performance of gender and identity in Jackie Kay's Trumpet (2005) — DataCite (Acadia University). Translating Gender and Race through Music in Jackie Kay’s Trumpet (2021) — DataCite (Anglistica AION: An Intersciplinary Journal). When they talk about mothers: Writing and investigating queer kinship in contemporary poetry (2022) — DataCite (NUI Galway). How Can We Diagnose and Treat Bias in Large Language Models for Clinical Decision-Making? (2025) — DataCite (Underline Science Inc.).

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 19 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)), 21 scientific preprints indexed (arXiv (Cornell University)) and 32 deposited research records (DataCite Commons). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

This article draws on 8 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 8 means 8 genuinely separate publishers of record. 13 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Jackie Kay studied at University of Stirling and Bishopbriggs Academy. the recorded working language is English.

Employment is recorded with Newcastle University. Positions recorded include chancellor and The Scots Makar. Membership is recorded of Royal Society of Literature and Black Female Professors Forum.

Works named in the authority record are Trumpet and Darling: New & Selected Poems.

Distinctions recorded are Member of the Order of the British Empire, Cholmondeley Award, Lambda Literary Award and Eric Gregory Award.