Em Strang teaches Creative Writing, Creative Reading and COPI (Community of Philosophical Inquiry) at Dumfries prison and works as Poetry Editor for the Dark Mountain Project. She completed a PhD in Creative Writing (ecological poetry) at the University of Glasgow in 2013, and was a recipient of a Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award the following year. Her work has been published widely in anthologies and journals, commended in the 2013 Wigtown and McLellan poetry competitions, shortlisted for the 2014 Bridport Prize and selected for the Forward Anthology in 2016. Her illustrated pamphlet, Stone , was published by Atlantic Press (a collaboration with artist, Mat Osmond) in March 2016, with all proceeds going to Scottish charity, Trees for Life. Bird-Woman (Shearsman, 2016) is her first full collection, and Horse-Man (Shearsman, 2019) her second).