Morag Edward is a Scottish artist and writer who lives by the sea. Mo has a passion for the outdoors, and she prefers the company of wildlife. She was last seen heading into the wilderness on an old motorbike and has rarely been spotted since. Mo’s photographs, paintings and short stories always make their own way back into the city, a little singed around the edges but ready to amaze, delight or disgust.

Mo has short stories published in a variety of anthologies including Read by Dawn II, Read by Dawn III, Imagine Coal, SlingInk Shorts and Recognition.

2009 was a good year for writing. Mo was one of the guest authors in Story Shop at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in August, in September she won the Highlands and Islands Short Story Competition and had a story accepted into the latest Earlyworks anthology, then in October Bloc Press published a collection of her cautionary culinary tales.

You can read Mo online too.  Her sporadic blogging can be found on three sites: velocity-m – an irreverant guide to and review of wheelchair accessible events and venues around the city, plus things to do while sitting down and a list of people to run over. It is of course is also the must-have guide to wheelin’ at the Festival Fringe in August. The second blog covers more grim territory, documenting the isolation from chronic illness, but the third blog follows the progress of various art and multi-media projects and plans, so far ranging from motorbike illustrations to a 12 feet high flaming archway, via the blue singing kitten.

Mo does escape from time to time. On those occasions she can be found at Edinburgh College of Art, te POOKa’s Big Red Door and Portobello beach. Her current life plan is to find a chauffeured campervan with a physio/ massage therapist in the hold, a kayak on the roof, a trail bike on the back, gadgets on the dashboard and a very well-stocked fridge, then embark on an exploration of the scottish coastline and summer festivals, writing and sketching all the way. Volunteers apply here. xxx