Elissa Hunter-Dorans

Elissa Hunter-Dorans is an Edinburgh-based writer and artist from the Highlands, writing in Gaelic and English. She was the Scottish Poetry Library’s first Next Generation Young Makar for Gaelic poetry, and she has performed at the Dandelion Festival, StAnza, and The Edinburgh Fringe. Elissa was recently awarded the Julia Budenz Commemorative Prize for Gaelic poetry. She is president of Edinburgh University’s Folk and Traditional Music Society, where she is currently studying History of Art. Currently, she is the Gaelic editor for The Poets’ Republic by Drunk Muse Press and was this year’s Gaelic judge for the Wigtown Poetry Prize.