Hannah Lavery

Hannah Lavery is a Scottish poet and playwright whose work explores inheritance and the politics of belonging. Her writing has been widely commissioned, and she served as Edinburgh Makar from 2021–2024. An Honorary Fellow of the Association of Scottish Literature and former Associate Artist with the National Theatre of Scotland, her plays include The Drift, Lament for Sheku Bayoh and The Protest, with work staged by the Royal Lyceum, Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Northern Stage, Fuel, The Traverse and the Edinburgh International Festival. She received the Peggy Ramsay/Film4 Award in 2022 and has written for BBC Radio Four and The Guardian. Her poetry collections Blood Salt Spring, Unwritten Woman and Everyday Everything (Polygon, 2026) are rooted in witness and lived experience, exploring Scotland’s contested and marginalised histories and unheard voices.
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