Michael Pedersen

MICHAEL PEDERSEN is a prize-winning Scottish poet, author and arts producer. His second collection, Oyster, was a collaboration with Scott Hutchison of Frightened Rabbit. His poetic prose debut, Boy Friends, came out with Faber & Faber in 2022 in the UK and North America, and is now travelling into translation editions. Among other accolades, he won a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship and a John Mathers Trust Rising Star Award. Pedersen also co-founded Neu! Reekie!, a prize-winning arts collective who produced cutting-edge shows across the UK (and the world) for over a decade.