Kaite Welsh is an Edinburgh-based journalist and critic and the literature officer at Creative Scotland. She writes a weekly column for the London Daily Telegraph and makes frequent appearances on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. She was included on the Independent on Sunday's 2015 Rainbow List, which recognizes the 101 most influential LGBTI people in the United Kingdom. In 2014 she was shortlisted for both the Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award and the Moniack Mhor Bridge Award.