Tessa Ransford

BIO | WORK

Tessa Ransford (www.wisdomfield.com) is past president and committee member of Scottish PEN. She is an established poet, translator, literary editor and cultural activist on many fronts over the last thirty years, having also worked as founder and director of the Scottish Poetry Library. Tessa initiated the annual Callum Macdonald Memorial Award for publishers of pamphlet poetry in Scotland, with the attendant fairs and online sales website: www.scottish-pamphlet-poetry.com. She has had Royal Literary Fund fellowships at the Centre for Human Ecology and Queen Margaret University. Tessa's New and Selected Poems, Not Just Moonshine, has recently been published by Luath Press, Edinburgh.