Valerie Gillies

Gillies was born in Alberta, Canada, but grew up in southern Scotland. She also studied traditional Sanskrit dramas in Mysore, India. She lives in Edinburgh and is married to William Gillies, a Celtic scholar, with whom she has had three children: two daughters and a son. == Career ==

As well as publishing collections of poetry and appearing in various Faber and Penguin anthologies. In 1992, Gillies was appointed Writer in Residence for Midlothian and East Lothian Her other residencies include The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art, various district libraries and a large psychiatric hospital. She was poet laureate ad vitam of the Trimontium Trust in 2002 She spent 2009–10 and 2013–14 researching and writing as an associate of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. == Bibliography ==