Dorothy Lawrenson

Dorothy Lawrenson is a poet who writes in English and Scots. She earned her MFA at Texas State University and is currently a doctoral student at the University of Edinburgh. Her poems have appeared in the anthologies Best New British and Irish Poets 2019–2021 (Eyewear), A Year of Scottish Poems (Macmillan) and Be the First to Like This (Vagabond Voices). She was the winner of the Scots Prize in the 2019 Wigtown Poetry Prize.