Kona Macphee is a UK-born, Australian-bred poet now living and working in Scotland. She was born in London in 1969 but grew up in Australia, where she flirted with a range of occupations including composer, violinist, waitress and motorcycle mechanic. Eventually she took up robotics and computer science, which brought her to Cambridge as a graduate student in 1995.

She now lives in Perthshire, works as a freelance writer and moonlights as the co-director of a software and consultancy company. She's been writing poems since 1997, and received an Eric Gregory Award in 1998. Her first collection, Tails, was published by Bloodaxe in 2004. Her second, Perfect Blue, came out in February 2010.