Creative Writing Academic Staff
School of English
John Burnside
Professor of English
After working in computer systems analysis for a decade, John Burnside became a full-time writer in 1994. John has published 14 books of poetry, eight novels, two memoirs, and a short story collection. Read more . . .
Robert Crawford
Professor of English
Born in Lanarkshire, Robert Crawford studied and taught at Glasgow and Oxford, moving to St Andrews in 1989. He has published six collections of poetry and over two dozen other books. Read more . . .
Oliver Emanuel
Lecturer in Creative Writing
Oliver Emanuel was born in Kent, England. He studied English/Theatre Studies at the University of Leeds before going on to complete a MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia in 2002. Read more . . .
Lesley Glaister
Lecturer in English
Lesley Glaister is the author of 13 novels including Honour Thy Father, which won both a Somerset Maugham and a Betty Trask Award; Limestone and Clay, which won Yorkshire Post’s Author of the Year . . . read more . . .
Zinnie Harris
Senior Lecturer in Playwriting
Zinnie Harris splits her time between St Andrews where she is Senior Lecturer in playwriting and screenwriting and the Traverse Theatre Edinburgh, where she is the Associate Director. Read more . . .
Oli Hazzard
Lecturer in Creative Writing
Oli Hazzard received his BA from University College London, his MA from Bristol and his D.Phil from Oxford for a thesis on John Ashbery. His first collection of poems, Between Two Windows . . . read more . . .
Reif Larsen
International Writer in Residence
Larsen studied at Brown University, and has taught at Columbia University, where he received an MFA in fiction. He is also a filmmaker, and has made documentaries in the US, the UK, and . . . read more . . .
Emma Jones
Lecturer in Creative Writing
Emma Jones received her B.A. (Hons) from the University of Sydney and her Ph.D. from Cambridge for a thesis on Christina Rossetti. Her first collection of poems …Read more…
Don Paterson
Professor of English
Don Paterson was born in Dundee in 1963. He is the author of Nil Nil (1993), winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection; God’s Gift to Women (1997), winner of both the T. S. Eliot Prize and . . . read more . . .