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Carol McKay's prize-winning short stories and poems are widely published in anthologies and magazines such as New Writing Scotland, Poetry Scotland, Gutter and Mslexia. She co-wrote the Scottish bestseller As I Lay Me Down To Sleep with Eileen Munro, published by Mainstream in 2008, and was interviewed on BBC World Service about her ebook Second Chances: True Stories of Living With Addison’s Disease in 2013. Carol won the Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship in 2010 and taught creative writing through The Open University between 2004 and 2018. PotHole Press published her post-pandemic novel Incunabulum in 2020, and the crime novel White Spirit in 2022. Her poetry pamphlet Reading the Landscape was published by Hedgehog Press in February 2022 and she was recently added to the Scottish Poetry Library's Online Guide to Scottish Poets. Her website is www.carolmckay.co.uk