Laura Muetzelfeldt
Laura Muetzelfeldt is a writer from Glasgow who has been published nationally and internationally in journals such as The International Literary Quarterly and New Writing Scotland. After completing an MLitt in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow, she worked as an English Teacher in Paisley for seven years. Laura has just completed a PhD […]
Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal
Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal is a writer and translator, and was born in Palampur, India. She studied at St. Bede’s College, Shimla; Trinity College, Dublin; and Queen’s University, Belfast. Her poems have been translated into Arabic, German, Italian; and have appeared in Ambit, Bad Lilies, Banshee, bath magg, Cyphers, Gutter, Oxford Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry […]
Clementine Burnley
Born in Cameroon, Clementine Burnley now lives and works between the U.K. and Germany. She has an MSc in Applied Linguistics from Manchester University and is a part-time, practice-based student at the Research Society for Process Oriented Psychotherapy – RSPOP, studying large group facilitation and conflict mediation. Her poems have been published in Ink, Sweat […]
AV
AV (Adam Vaughn) is an Edinburgh-based writer, screenwriter, and teacher from Connecticut. They completed their Creative Writing MSc in 2021, serving as the Head Prose Editor for the From Arthur’s Seat anthology. They have also placed in numerous screenwriting contests, notably as a short-listed finalist in the ScreenCraft Comedy Competition. AV is set to finish […]
Anna Bambridge
Anna Bambridge is a writer based in Glasgow. Her work is about seeing and being seen. She has studied physics and vision and draws from her scientific experience to explore how our perceptions are impacted by paradigm choice. During her time at Cove Park she will be working on her memoir “The Story of My […]
Alison Irvine
Alison Irvine lives in Glasgow and is a writer of fiction and creative non-fiction. Her first novel This Road is Red (Luath 2011), based on the stories of residents and workers in Glasgow’s Red Road Flats, was shortlisted for the Saltire First Book of the Year award. Her second novel, Cat Step (Dead Ink 2020), […]
Kristina Marie Darling
Kristina Marie Darling is the author of thirty-nine books. An expert consultant with the U.S. Fulbright Commission, and a twice-awarded Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Darling’s work has also been recognized with three residencies at Yaddo, where she has held the Martha Walsh Pulver Residency for a Poet and the Howard Moss Residency in Poetry; nine residencies […]
Annette Weisser
Annette Weisser is a visual artist and writer based in Berlin. She is currently teaching at Kunsthochschule Kassel. From 2006 to 2019 she lived in Los Angeles and taught at ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena. Recurrent themes in her work of recent years are historical trauma and collective identity construction. In her collaborative work with […]
Kim Sherwood
Kim Sherwood is an author and creative writing lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, where she lives in the city. Kim Sherwood’s first novel, Testament (2018), won the Bath Novel Award and Harper’s Bazaar Big Book Award. It was longlisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize and shortlisted for the Author’s Club Best First Novel Pick. […]
NAARCA Commission: Sámi writer Hanna Guttorm
Hannah Lavery
Hannah Lavery is a Scottish poet and playwright. She was appointed Edinburgh Makar (or city poet) in November 2021 for a three year term. She was also selected by Owen Sheers’ as one of his Ten Writers Asking Questions That Will Shape Our Future for the International Literature Showcase, a project from the National Writing […]
Sarah Krasnostein
We are delighted to partner with Edinburgh International Book Festival to host Australian writer Sarah Krasnostein in August. Sarah Krasnostein is a multi-award winning writer and critic. She is the best-selling author of The Trauma Cleaner (2017),The Believer(2021), the Quarterly Essay,Not Waving, Drowning(2022) andOn Peter Carey(2023). She holds aPhD in criminal law and is admitted to legal practice […]