About the Author

Cathy McSporran's fiction has appeared in a wide range of magazines and anthologies such as Mslexia, Chapman, Nerve, Eclogia and From Glasgow to Saturn. She has been shortlisted for the Macallan/Scotland on Sunday prize, and was awarded the Constable Award by the Scottish Association of Writers. She has a PhD from Glasgow University's School of Creative Writing, and teaches classes in creative writing, poetry and Dante's Inferno in Glasgow's Open Studies department.