Staff profiles
The programme is run by experienced, published writers.
Dilys Rose - Programme Director
Dilys has been teaching Creative Writing at Edinburgh since 2002. She has published ten books of fiction and poetry, including:
- Red Tides (short story collection)
- Pest Maiden (novel)
- Bodywork (poetry collection)
Awards
- the Macallan/Scotland on Sunday short story award
- two Scottish Arts Council book awards
- a Society of Authors’ Travel Award
She has also been nominated or shortlisted for:
- the McVities’ Scottish Writer of the Year (shortlisted, Red Tides)
- the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year (shortlisted, Red Tides)
- The SA/Sundial Awards (shortlisted, Bodywork)
- the IMPAC Award (nomination, Pest Maiden)
Creative collaborations include the libretto for the opera Kaspar Hauser: Child of Europe.
She is currently working on a novel based on blasphemy and betrayal in a time of moral panic, for which she received a Leverhulme Research Fellowship.
- Dilys Rose
- Programme Director
- Creative Writing by Online Learning
- Work: +44 (0)131 650 4274
- Email:
- drose@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Miriam Gamble - Deputy Programme Director
Miriam Gamble is a poet and critic from Belfast.
Her publications are This Man’s Town (tall-lighthouse, 2008) and The Squirrels Are Dead (Bloodaxe, 2010).
Awards
- the Somerset Maugham Award (The Squirrels are Dead, 2011)
- the Eric Gregory Award (2007)
- the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Award (2010)
- the Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize (2012)
Before joining the team at Edinburgh, Miriam worked as a creative writing tutor at Queen’s University, Belfast.
She is a keen reviewer, and has written for a variety of publications including: Edinburgh Review, Magma, New Statesman, Poetry Ireland Review, PN Review.
She likes poems about animals, poems in assumed voices, and writers who experiment with form. Current interests include the relationship between poetry and the political.
- Dr Miriam Gamble
- Deputy Programme Director
- Creative Writing by Online Learning
- Work: +44 (0)131 651 5079
Niki Vielma - Learning Technologist
Niki Vielma has been working as a Learning Technologist for eight years. She has worked for several universities and recently what is now Scotland’s biggest college. She really enjoys working with academic staff and students and showing them how to use technology to enhance their teaching and learning. She is from the US and has lived in Scotland with her son for over eight years and loves it here - even the weather!
- Niki Vielma
- Learning Technologist
- Creative Writing by Online Learning
- Work: +44 (0)131 651 5078
- Email:
- niki.vielma@ed.ac.uk
This article was published on Nov 6, 2012