Colette Paul

Colette Paul was born in Glasgow and graduated with a first in English and Politics from the University of Glasgow. She has just graduated with distinction from the new Creative Writing department of the same university (run by James Kelman, Alisdair Gray and Tom Leonard) and is about to begin a Ph.D. in Creative Writing. She is 23 and lives in Glasgow. She was recently awarded a Scottish Arts Council award to help her to complete a first novel.