“A great artist” Tom Robinson, BBC 6music
Ellen McAteer, a poet and songwriter, works at the Glasgow School of Art. She is a mentee of the Clydebuilt Verse Apprenticeship Scheme, under Alexander Hutchison. She has had writing published in, among others, Aesthetica, West Coast Magazine, The Illustrated Ape, and, most recently, New Writing Scotland. Her play, Portrait, was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe and recorded for radio. Her song Blue Valentine won a BBC radio competition, and has been used in a recent TV advert. She was until recently a member of Donny O’Rourke‘s poetry group. She was previously a director of the Scottish Writers’ Centre, a member of the core group of performers at the Hammer & Tongue spoken word collective in Oxford, and singer with the band the Blue Valentines.
