Dorothy Baird is a poet, writer and tutor of writing workshops. She was the founder and tutor for five years of the Young Edinburgh Writers YEW, a creative writing group for teenagers in the city.

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Dorothy has a new pamphlet 'The Importance of Not' forthcoming from Poetry Space in autumn 2025

Her second poetry collection, Mind the Gap, is published by Indigo Dreams Publishing: 
www.indigodreams.co.uk/dorothy-baird/4590921306

​Her first collection, Leaving the Nest, was published by Two Ravens Press in 2007.

​ Her work has been commended in poetry competitions and published in many magazines and anthologies. (See'Her Poetry' page for more details.)

If you'd like to contact her to arrange a reading or a workshop, please email: [email protected] 

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