Bridget Khursheed is a poet and geek. She is a Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award winner for poetry, and has published a chapbook Lovers Farm. She was Co-ordinator of Writing Fragments, part of the wider Fragments project (a partnership between Historic Scotland and the Hawick Heritage Hub supported with funding from Creative Scotland); and she is an ongoing contributor to Scott’s Treasures, an Abbotsford Trust and Creative Arts Business Network (CABN) partnership project; having appeared in the first Scottish Borders’ Poets Showcase in 2013.

Bridget is now on the Scottish Book Trust Live Literature database of authors (http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/author-search) available to read and workshop around Scotland and she has spoken on everything from the Brontës (she is also one of 5 sisters and grew up in a Vicarage), new Scottish poetry, social media, John Leyden to knitting with dog hair.

The geek part is easy; Bridget has a day job in software having pioneered intranets in the UK and she managed and developed the first online course at the University of Oxford. @khursheb, @poetandgeek, www.poetandgeek.net

Author photo from Twinlaw Publishing.