About Kathleen
Kathleen Jamie began writing poems in her teens and published her first work at 20. Since then, poetry has been the touchstone of her life. Her collections have won prestigious awards, including the Forward Prize for The Tree House, the Costa Award for The Overhaul, and the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award for The Bonniest Companie. She taught creative writing for twenty years, firstly at University of St Andrews, and latterly as Professor of Poetry at the University of Stirling. She has held poetry fellowships at Queens University Belfast, and the University of Otago, New Zealand. As well as poetry, she writes non-fiction. Her ‘Sightlines Trilogy’ books (Findings, Sightlines and Surfacing) were published to wide acclaim and hailed as important interventions in the ‘New Nature Writing’. Cairn (2024) explores new ground, blending micro-essays, notes and poetry. Kathleen served as Scotland’s Makar, or National Poet from 2021-24. She likes dugs, bairns and flo’ors.