Kathleen Jamie

Kathleen Jamie, one of the U.K.'s foremost poets, is the author of several books of poetry and nonfiction titles, including Sightlines. Her many awards and honors include the 2017 Royal Geographic Society Ness Award, conferred upon Jamie "for outstanding creative writing at the confluence of travel, nature and culture"; the 2013 Costa Book Award; as well as numerous prestigious poetry awards, including the Somerset Maugham Award, Forward Poetry Prize of the Year, and Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award. The Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Stirling, she lives with her family in Fife, Scotland.