About the Author

Scottish poet Marion McCready was born in Stornoway and lives in Dunoon, Argyll. Her poems have been published widely including in Poetry (Chicago), Edinburgh Review, The Glasgow Herald and Be The First To Like This: New Scottish Poetry (Vagabond Voices, 2014). Her chapbook, Vintage Sea, was published by Calder Wood Press (2011). She won a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award in 2013 and won the Melita Hume Poetry Prize also in 2013. Her first full- length collection, TREE LANGUAGE, was published by Eyewear Publishing (2014).