Pip Osmond-Williams is a poet from the Peak District, now living in Perth. In 2021 her debut pamphlet Of Algae & Grief won the Brian Dempsey Memorial Prize and was selected as the Poetry Book Society’s Spring Pamphlet Choice the following year. She received a New Writer’s Award for Poetry from the Scottish Book Trust in 2024. In her work she explores themes of grief, place, home, and the natural world.

Pip is also a Scottish Literature researcher. In 2019 she was awarded a PhD in Scottish Literature from the University of Glasgow for her thesis, ‘Changing Scotland: a social history of love in the life and work of Edwin Morgan’. She is currently co-editor of William Soutar: Collected Works, the Assistant Director of the Association for Scottish Literature, the Programme Manager of the Edwin Morgan Trust, and the Secretary of the Friends of William Soutar Society.