Loretta is studying for a PhD in English at Dundee University. Using literary techniques and extracts from Bird’s work she is writing a series of creative non-fiction essays which explore themes such as landscape, solitariness, and creativity; truth, memory and marginal voices, and the literary value of the epistolatory form.

Loretta has been published in anthologies by Scottish Pen (2020), Speculative Books (2021), the Saltire Society (2022) and by www.intocreative.co.uk (2019-present).  She contributed to the Dundee University Archives Exhibition ‘Tales of the Unexpected’ as part of Scotland’s Year of Stories (2022) and has had short stories published in Northwords Now and flash fiction in Thi Wurd.  She has written regular reviews for D C Thomson and  www.intocreative.co.uk  and is Fiction Editor for Dundee University Review of the Arts (DURA) online magazine. Loretta has interviewed authors for www.imaginedspaces.org and was Social Media Assistant and Blogger for Paisley Book Festival (2020-21).