Career
Her work has been translated into German, Russian, Lithuanian, Slovak, Spanish, Hungarian, Ukrainian and Italian. She has held three Creative Writing Fellowships, received two Scottish Arts Council Writer"s Bursaries and a Playwright"s Bursary, edited New Writing Scotland and co-ordinated the first Scottish Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association Women Writers Committee. She was awarded a Creative Scotland Award to write Not for Glory (2000), a collection of interlinked short stories in Scots set in a small village in Central Scotland.
Not for Glory was one of the ten Scottish finalists voted for by the public in the 2003 World Book Day "We are what we read" poll.
She is the mother of actor David Paisley.
