In Conversation with Jen Stout

Over the last three years of Russia's war against Ukraine, journalist Jen Stout brought the war home to readers in Scotland with her vivid first-hand reporting from the night trains and bunkers, the frontlines, and the cities under siege - all now detailed in her award-winning book Night Train to Odesa.

Jen Stout is an award-winning journalist and author from Scotland. Her first book Night Train to Odesa - an account of covering the war in Ukraine as an independent reporter - was published in 2024 and was a BBC radio Book of the Week; it won the Saltire Society First Book award, and was shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje prize and the Highland Book Prize. Most recently she's written for Prospect magazine about the role of symbolic architecture in wartime Kharkiv, and language politics in Ukraine.

Jen grew up in the Shetland Islands and has lived in Leipzig and Moscow; she was previously a BBC radio and TV journalist, and a local newspaper reporter. She lives in Edinburgh. 

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