Claire Armitstead
Claire
Armitstead is the Guardian's literary editor.
She was previously arts editor, having worked as a theatre critic for the Ham
& High, the Financial Times and the Guardian.
As a published author, she has
contributed essays to New Performance (Macmillan, 1994) and Women: A Cultural
Review (Oxford University Press, 1996). She makes regular appearances on radio
and television as a cultural commentator on literature and the arts