Media Bio

Dr Aimee Blackledge is an American writer who lives in the UK.  She writes historical fiction and poetry about art, artists and the wider art world.  Her latest poetry pamphlet, Ghost Bones, was written under the mentorship of T.S. Eliot prize winner, Joelle Taylor. She has published previously in Visual Verse and Facing the Fire, the latest anthology published by Writing on the Wall in Liverpool. 

Her debut novel, Clouded in Clerkenwell, is currently being serialised in weekly instalments on Substack. She is currently working on her second historical novel, which focuses on the later life of Hester Tradescant in South Lambeth, London.

Aimee was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) by the University of Oxford for her doctoral thesis, Materials for the Artist’s Mind: Artists as Collectors in Eighteenth-Century England.  She has worked extensively across the history of art as a research associate, lecturer, curator, tutor, and post-doctoral researcher.  She has taught at the University of Oxford, the University of Liverpool, and on the Williams-Exeter Programme.  During her curatorial and research projects, she worked with the BBC, Art UK, the Public Catalogue Foundation, the Wind Benefaction Committee, and the Pembroke College Junior Art Fund Collection.

She was born in Michigan and has lived in the UK for over 25 years. She currently lives in the coastal village of Formby, near Liverpool. In addition to writing and teaching, Aimee is also an abstract painter who has sold and exhibited her works in commercial art galleries across the UK.