Hannah Lavery

Hannah Lavery is a poet and playwright from Edinburgh. Her debut poetry collection, Blood Salt Spring (Polygon), was nominated for a Saltire Prize in 2022, and her second collection, Unwritten Woman, was published by Polygon in August 2024 and was highly commended by the Forward Poetry Prize. She was made an honouree fellow of the Association of Scottish Literature in 2025. Her upcoming poetry collection Everything [Everyday]: A Year of [Empty] Promises will published by Polygon in May 2026. Hannah is the former Makar (poet laureate) for the City of Edinburgh and a former Associate Artist at National Theatre Scotland (NTS). Her plays for NTS The Drift and Lament for Sheku Bayoh and The Protest have toured extensively. Hannah lives, breathes and dreams on the beaches and cliffs of Scotland’s East Coast, with her dreaming often taking her back to the streets and closes of Edinburgh.