Kathleen Jamie

Award-winning poet, Kathleen Jamie was born in the west of Scotland in 1962. Her first travel book, Among Muslims (also published by Sort Of Books), was described as 'utterly luminous' (The Independent) and 'one of the most powerful accounts by a contemporary Western writer' (TLS).

Her latest poetry collection, The Tree House (Picador), won the 2004 Forward prize.

A part-time lecturer in Creative Writing at St Andrews University, Kathleen Jamie lives with her family in Fife.