Mary Paulson-Ellis Author & Editor

Mary Paulson-Ellis is an award-winning author writing across the boundaries of crime, historical and literary fiction. Her debut novel, The Other Mrs Walker was a Times bestseller and Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year. Mary’s short and non-fiction have featured in the Guardian and on BBC Radio 4, and in 2019 Val McDermid named her one of ten exciting LGBTQ+ writers working today. Mary is an experienced workshop leader, events chair, Royal Literary Fund Fellow and Chair of the Society of Authors in Scotland. She lives in Edinburgh and in 2023 was named Dr Gavin Wallace Fellow by Edinburgh Unesco City of Literature for a new novel about her home city. She was recently appointed Writer-in-Residence at the University of Edinburgh.