Dr Charlie Lee-Potter

Dr Charlie Lee-Potter is an award-winning writer, lecturer, artist and broadcaster. She holds two doctorates, one in English Literature and the other in Fine Art. As the former presenter of BBC Radio 4 programmes such as PM, The World at One, Open Book and The World This Weekend, Charlie has a particular interest in the combination of found sound and the spoken word. For her podcast Inside A Mountain, shortlisted for the International Women’s Podcast Awards, she blends soundscape and music to evoke the atmosphere of walks with guests such as international cellist Natalie Clein, poet Ian McMillan, and mathematician Marcus du Sautoy. As an artist, Charlie uses printmaking, sculpture, assemblage and fibre arts to create visual narratives about the lives of forgotten women. She has exhibited in both the UK and USA and, later this year, has a solo show in Bath.

Charlie is the winner of the International Créateurs Design Prize for Creative Journalism for her work on the sculptor Auguste Rodin. Her publication, Writing the 9/11 Decade: Reportage and the Evolution of the Novel (Bloomsbury), shortlisted for the University English Book Prize, examined the way novelists and artists struggled to represent the attacks of 9/11 in creative form. Her chapters for the book These Islands: A Portrait of the British Isles explored the idea of using geometrical shapes to walk city streets. Charlie is the current writer in residence at Oxford’s Wytham Woods where she is writing and illustrating a work of creative nonfiction about women who live alone in woods and forests.