Ian McDonough

Ian McDonough's work has been featured widely, from Poetry Review to The Times Higher Educational Supplement, Physics News, The Scotsman, The Herald and New Writing Scotland. His latest collection, A Witch Among the Gooseberries, is published by Mariscat Press. Ian's first full-length poetry collection Clan MacHine (Chapman) was shortlisted for Saltire Scottish First Book of the Year in 2004. The poem sequence A Rising Fever was published by Kettilonia in 2000, and in the same year he was commissioned by the Engineering and Science Research Council and Strathclyde University to produce a series of poems on particle physics. His third collection The Vanishing Hitchhiker was published by Mariscat in 2014. Ian's first play 51 Pegasus toured Scotland in 2003. He co-edited the second Shore Poets anthology The Ice Horses (Scottish Cultural Press).

Originally from Brora, Sutherland, he now lives in Edinburgh with his partner and daughter. He is a recipient of a SAC Writer's Award, and was winner of the National Galleries of Scotland writing competition 2008. Ian works as a consultant and trainer in conflict resolution and mediation. He is a very experienced performer of his poetry and has delivered a wide range of creative writing workshops.