Claire Askew's poetry has appeared in numerous publications, including The Guardian, Poetry Scotland, PANK and Popshot.  Her work has been twice selected to appear in the Scottish Poetry Library's Best Scottish Poems of the Year anthology (2008 and 2009), and she has won several awards for her poetry, including the 2010 Virginia Warbey Poetry Prize.  Her debut pamphlet, The Mermaid and the Sailors, was published in spring 2011 by Red Squirrel Press and was shortlisted for a 2010 Eric Gregory Award.  She is currently reading for a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh.