Originally from Kilsyth, she has lived and worked for most of her adult life near Stirling. She currently lives in Glasgow. Her full length collections are Graffiti in Red Lipstick, Wild Women of a Certain Age and Kicking Back. She’s held three Scottish Arts Council Creative Writing Fellowships, a Royal Literary Fund Fellowship, and was Stirling Makar. Her sequence, The Senile Dimension, won the Scotland on Sunday/Women 2000 Writing Prize, and in 2009 she received a major Scottish Arts Council bursary. A new poetry collection will be out in 2016. Magi’s website: http://www.magigibson.co.uk/