Chris Creegan is a public policy consultant and writer. He has spent his career in the public and third sectors and has held a number of senior leadership roles, most recently as Chief Executive of the Scottish Commission for Learning Disability between 2013 and 2019.  Chris has extensive experience as a charity and not for profit executive. He was Chair of Scottish Adoption between 2008 and 2015, and the Scottish Association for Mental Health between 2015 and 2022. He has been a member of Social Security Scotland’s Executive Advisory Body since 2018, and is currently Vice-chair of Dignity in Dying. He is a regular blogger, occasional columnist, and commentator across social media, newspapers and radio. He is currently Chair of the Edwin Morgan Trust.

CD Boyland is a [d]eaf poet, visual poet and editor who lives in Cumbernauld near Glasgow. His first, full-length collection of poems (‘Mephistopheles’) will be published by Blue Diode in 2023. He has also published pamphlets (‘User Stories’; Stewed Rhubarb, 2020 and ‘Vessel’; Red Squirrel, 2022) alongside collections of visual/experimental work. Together with artist/poet Julie Laing, he curates ‘Off-page’, an ongoing series of anthology/exhibitions centering visual poetry and the poetic visual (@offpagevispo). He also co-edits The Glasgow Review of Books. Twit: @chrisdboyland/Insta: @cdboyland

Beth Cochrane is a writer and literature worker based in Edinburgh. She is currently a Literature Officer at Creative Scotland, but spent the previous decade programming literary events and festivals including Push the Boat Out: Edinburgh’s International Poetry Festival, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Bradford Literature Festival, and at the National Library of Scotland and the Scottish Poetry Library. She has been a Trustee of Wigtown Book Festival. Beth is also a writer who has been awarded a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award, an Emerging Writer’s Residency at Cove Park, the Sloan Prize, and been shortlisted for the Alpine International Writing Fellowship. 

Kris Haddow is a playwright, poet, performer, and author from Dumfries and Galloway, who has won awards for Scots language writing. He graduated University of Glasgow’s MLitt Creative Writing, holds an MBA, and is writing a novel and thesis in South West Scots in pursuit of a PhD. A former Scottish Book Trust Ignite Fellow, he received Creative Scotland
Open Funding to develop work via Granta’s memoir workshop. Kris co-
Chairs the Scottish Society of Playwrights, was a theatre charity Trustee
for six years, and is a consulting advisor to several corporate boards.

Andrés N. Ordorica is a queer Latinx writer based in Edinburgh. Drawing on his family’s immigrant history and third culture upbringing, his writing maps the journey of diaspora and unpacks what it means to be from ni de aquí, ni de allá (neither here, nor there). He is the author of the poetry collections, At Least This I Know and Holy Boys, and the novel, How We Named The Stars. He has been shortlisted for the Kavya Prize, Morley Lit Prize, the Mo Siewcharran Prize and the Saltire Society’s Poetry Book of The Year. In 2024, he was selected as one of The Observer’s 10 Best Debut Novelists.

Laurie Manson has been a Chartered Accountant since 1983, and has over 40 years experience in advising businesses and their stakeholders across a wide variety of sectors, scale of operations, and legal jurisdictions. She is a graduate of the University of Glasgow three times over, mostly recently completing a PhD that indulged her fascination with all things American. Laurie is a former Trustee of the University of Glasgow Trust, a former non executive board member of a Scottish Government Agency, has both been a member of, and chaired, committees within her professional body, and is currently an active member of the University of Strathclyde’s Intergenerational Mentoring programme at a Glasgow Secondary School. She is currently Treasurer of the Edwin Morgan Trust.

James Rann is Senior Lecturer in Russian at the University of Glasgow and, occasionally, a translator and writer. His research interests include Russophone poetry (especially modernism), translation (especially in connection with refugee integration) and clothes and fashion in the Soviet Union. Some of his recent work has explored Morgan’s translations from Russian and also Morgan’s relationship with Ukrainian culture.  He is currently Secretary of the Edwin Morgan Trust. 

Zoë Strachan is the award-winning author of four novels, most recently Catch The Moments as They Fly. She also writes short stories, often for radio, creative non-fiction, plays and libretti for opera, and has edited six anthologies of new writing and been a judge for the Dublin International Literary Award. Her sound art/experimental radio collaboration with composer Nichola Scrutton includes a piece, Lying Over Under Another, inspired by (and featuring the sound of) Edwin Morgan’s scrapbooks. She is Professor of Creative and Interdisciplinary Practice at the University of Glasgow.   

Greg Thomas is a poet, writer, and arts journalist based in Glasgow. He is the author of Border Blurs: Concrete Poetry in England and Scotland (Liverpool UP: 2019) and poetry collections including from im and not this (SPAM, 2021), particulates (timglaset, 2022), and candle poems (Poem Atlas, 2023). He makes poem-objects at oo-press.com. He also works as a communications specialist in the third sector and is currently the communications manager for Humanist Society Scotland. A former post-doctoral fellow at the University of Edinburgh, Greg is a longtime fan of Edwin Morgan’s work and is a specialist on Morgan’s concrete, sound, and visual poetry.

Sarah Walker is a commercial litigator practicing in London but hailing from the Kingdom of Fife.  Whilst her immediate experience of treading the boards is restricted to the courtroom, she is a passionate advocate of the arts with a particular interest in supporting the development of new and emerging artists.

Pip Osmond-Williams is the Edwin Morgan Trust’s Programme Manager. She works with the EMT’s partners and other literary organisations to develop poetry, translation and research projects and events across Scotland and beyond. In 2019 she was awarded a PhD from the University of Glasgow for her thesis ‘Changing Scotland: a social history of love in the life and work of Edwin Morgan’.