Jane McKie, originally from West Sussex, lives in Linlithgow, West Lothian. She has written two collections of poetry: Morocco Rococo (Cinnamon Press), won the Sundial/Scottish Arts Council award for best first book of 2007, andWhen the Sun Turns Green (Polygon, 2009).  In 2011 McKie won the inaugural Edwin Morgan poetry prize. She runs a small press, Knucker Press, that encourages collaboration between artists and poets, and currently teaches on the MSc in Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh.