Michael Pedersen

Michael Pedersen: is a prize-winning Scottish poet and author, the Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University and the new Edinburgh Makar (Poet Laureate). His prose debut, Boy Friends, was published by Faber & Faber in 2022 to rave reviews – it was a Sunday Times Critics Choice and shortlisted for Best Non-Fiction at Scotland's National Book Awards. The Cat Prince & Other Poems, his third collection, won the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Best Poetry 2023. Pedersen has also been shortlisted for the Forward Prizes for Poetry and won a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship. His work has been praised by the likes of Stephen Fry, Sara Pascoe, Nicola Sturgeon, Jackie Kay, Alan Cumming & many other fine minds.