Fiona Templeton writes poetry that is mostly for performance, or plays that are poetry. Her work ranges from citywide to intimate scales, with particular attention to matters of the audience, women and orality. She lives in New York, with a foot still in Scotland.

Books include You The City, Cells of Release, and The Medead (Roof Books). She is Artistic Director of The Relationship, a New York based company staging works mostly by poets and by women, with radical approaches to design for relationship to the audience. For 10 years she was director of the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers. She co-founded the Theatre of Mistakes in London in the 1970s. She has published 12 books of poetry and performance, and has directed her performance work on several continents. Fellowships include the NEA, New York Foundation for the Arts, the Asian Cultural Council and the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard.