Cleland Smith

Hi, my name is Cleland Smith.* I am a science fiction writer and poet.

I was born in Inverness in 1977 and grew up in Dingwall by the Cromarty Firth. I started writing stories and poems before I could spell properly and was soon amassing jotters full of them. Following secondary school, I moved to Glasgow where I studied at the University of Glasgow for my MA in English Language and Literature, then spent the next couple of years working and saving to study for an MA in writing. In 2003 I moved to London to study at Goldsmiths College London for my Masters in Creative and Life Writing, where I was lucky enough to be tutored by Lavinia Greenlaw, Maurice Riordan and Stephen Knight.

I have published three volumes of poetry: Waiting to Burn (2007

Hi, my name is Cleland Smith.* I am a science fiction writer and poet.

I was born in Inverness in 1977 and grew up in Dingwall by the Cromarty Firth. I started writing stories and poems before I could spell properly and was soon amassing jotters full of them. Following secondary school, I moved to Glasgow where I studied at the University of Glasgow for my MA in English Language and Literature, then spent the next couple of years working and saving to study for an MA in writing. In 2003 I moved to London to study at Goldsmiths College London for my Masters in Creative and Life Writing, where I was lucky enough to be tutored by Lavinia Greenlaw, Maurice Riordan and Stephen Knight.

I have published three volumes of poetry: Waiting to Burn (2007) and And in Here, the Menagerie (2008) with Templar Poetry, and Room of Thieves (2013) with Salt Publishing. I published my first novel, Sequela, to Kindle in June 2013.

*A note on my name: I was born Angela Cleland and if you read poetry you probably still know me as such. If you are my husband, which not many of you are, you will know me as Angela Smith. My Dad calls me Jock. He wanted a boy. Called John. John Cleland - I know.