Yvonne Gray

Yvonne Gray (1958) was born in Scotland. She studied English Language and Literature at Edinburgh University. She moved to the Northern Isles in 1990 and settled in Orkney near the town of Stromness with her husband and three sons. She writes poetry and non-fiction and is a keen musician. Yvonne has been involved in several collaborations, including Rationed Air (with artist Carol Dunbar), a hand made limited editon of poems and prints; a screenplay for the film Between the Terminals; and the exhibition Flows and Traces (2004-2005). She compiled Out of Rubbish and Tinsel of War, a reading of poems and prose inspired by World War II in Orkney. Recently she has been involved in Mailboats, a project inspired by the St Kilda mailboat, with a group of poets and sculptors from Orkney and Shetland. She received a Scottish Arts Council Writers’ Bursary in 2002 and Hi-Arts Writers’ Development Awards in 2004 and 2008. Her poems and prose have been published widely in magazines, pamphlets and anthologies. Her first full collection of poems, In the Hanging Valley, was published in 2008.