Kathleen Jamie, poet and essayist, was born in the west of Scotland in 1962. Her poetry collections to date include The Tree House (2004), which won the Forward prize, and The Overhaul (2012), which won the Costa Poetry Prize. Her non-fiction includes the highly acclaimed books Findings and Sightlines, both regarded as important contributions to the ‘new nature writing’. Her most recent poetry collection, The Bonniest Companie appeared in 2015, and won the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award.