Michael Pedersen is a prize-winning Scottish poet and author, a former Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University, and Edinburgh’s Makar (Poet Laureate). His prose debut, Boy Friends, was published by Faber in 2022 – it was a Sunday Times Critics Choice and shortlisted for Best Non-Fiction at Scotland’s National Book Awards. The Cat Prince & Other Poems, his third collection, won the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Best Poetry 2023. Pedersen has also been shortlisted for the Forward Prizes for Poetry and won a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship. His work has been praised by the likes of: Stephen Fry, Irvine Welsh, Ocean Vuong, Bernardine Evaristo, & many more. His debut novel Muckle Flugga was published by Faber in 2025 to rave reviews. Muckle Flugga was narrated as an audiobook by Jack Lowden and will appear in translation editions in 2026 in French, German, Spanish, and beyond.