Kathleen Jamie was born in Scotland in 1962. She has published several collections of poetry, including: Black Spiders (1982), The Way We Live (1987), The Queen of Sheba (1994), Jizzen (1999), and her selected poems, Mr & Mrs Scotland Are Dead, was published in 2002. Her poetry collection, The Tree House (2004), won the 2004 Forward Prize for Best Collection, and was a Poetry Book Society Choice. The Overhaul is shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2012. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and served as Makar, National Poet of Scotland, between 2021 and 2024. She lives in Fife.
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