A Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Queen Margaret University, Tessa taught the option module 'Creativity in Life and Art' from 2001-2005. She is a writer, poet, and cultural activist, and also works with Scottish PEN, campaigning for freedom from oppression for writers worldwide.

Tessa writes: For the last six years, since retiring from the Scottish Poetry Library, I have been concerned with promoting pamphlets as a vehicle for poets (see www.scottish-pamphlet-poetry.com for further details).

I feel in tune with human ecology because I consider myself a 'pattern head' rather than a blockhead. Accordingly, I am interested in politics, culture, the environment, education, children and life.

'Shades of green', my latest poetry pamphlet (Autumn 2005), grew out of my experience in the community of the Centre for Human Ecology.

Tessa's website: www.wisdomfield.com
More information on PEN in Scotland: www.scottishpen.org