TESSA RANSFORD is an established poet, translator, literary editor, and has worked as a cultural activist on many fronts over the last forty years. She founded and was the first director of the Scottish Poetry Library.
Tessa initiated the annual Callum Macdonald Memorial Award for publishers of pamphlet poetry in Scotland, now in its twelfth year, with the attendant fairs and website:
www.scottish-pamphlet-poetry.com. She has had Royal Literary Fund fellowships at the Centre for Human Ecology and Queen Margaret University. She was president of Scottish PEN from 2003-6.
