Kathleen Jamie lives in Fife and teaches creative writing at the University of St. Andrews. Her collections of poetry include Jizzen, The Queen of Sheba, and The Autonomous Region: Poems and Photographs from Tibet (photographs by Sean Mayne Smith). Her poetry awards include the Somerset Maugham Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award.

About The Literary Review:
In this issue: John Burnside, Robert Crawford, Douglas Dunn, Janice Galloway, Alasdair Gray, Laura Hird, Kathleen Jamie, James Kelman, A. L. Kennedy, David Kinloch, Aonghas MacNeacail, Peter McCarey, Edwin Morgan, Agnes Owens, Alan Riach, Alice Thompson, Susan Tichy, Roderick Watson,