Fiona Ritchie Walker is originally from Montrose, Angus in Scotland and now lives in Blaydon,near Newcastle. Her poetry collections are Lip Reading (Diamond Twig),Garibaldi's Legs (Iron Press) and the chapbook, Angus Palette (Sand), which is illustrated by her sister, Kirsten Ritchie Walker.
Fiona's work has also been published in many magazines and anthologies, including Virago/Writing Women's Wild Cards, the British Council's New Writing 11 and New Writing 15, plus several anthologies from New Writing Scotland.
She is a past finalist in the Scottish Community Drama Festival's One Act Play competition, with her play, The Anstruther Light, which has also been performed by the Kaims Players,Montrose.
Fiona's short stories have appeared on literary websites and in Newcastle Stories 1, Bracket and September Stories (all Comma Press), and she took first prize in the Writer's and Artist's Yearbook Short Story Competition and the University of Plymouth Creative Writing Prize. She was the recipient of a Northern Promise Award from New Writing North.
