Beth McDonough studied Silversmithing at Glasgow School of Art. After an MLitt at Dundee University, she was writer in residence at Dundee Contemporary Arts. Her work connects strongly with place, particularly to the Tay, where she swims year round. She forages nearby for wild foods and poems. Her poetry is published in Gutter, Stand, Antiphon, Magma and many other places. In Handfast (with Ruth Aylett) she explored experiences of autism, as Aylett examined dementia. McDonough’s solo pamphlet, Lamping for pickled fish, is published by 4Word, and many of those poems are drawn from the area around the Firth of Tay. She continues to work intermedially.