Catherine Czerkawska is a widely published writer of novels, poems, short stories and award winning plays for the stage and for BBC Radio 4. (Some 200 hours of radio drama to date.) She has just come to the end of a Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellowship at the University of the West of Scotland.

Her stage play Wormwood, was produced to critical acclaim at the Traverse Theatre and is now a set text for Higher Drama. The Secret Commonwealth is her third play for the Oran Mor in Glasgow. The Price of a Fish Supper was written for the same venue and subsequently staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It was followed by Burns on the Solway, a play about the final days of the poet’s life.

Her third novel The Curiosity Cabinet,(Polygon 2005) was one of three finalists for the Dundee Book Prize, and her non fiction book, God’s Islanders, a major hardback study of the history and landscape of the Isle of Gigha, was published by Birlinn in November 2006. She has just completed a novel called The Summer Visitor, and is working – among many other things! - on a new novel called The Sorrel Mare.

Catherine lives in rural Ayrshire with her artist husband Alan Lees.

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