Beth Frieden is an actress, a poet, and a mother. She is from the USA but now lives in Glasgow, where she works and writes in English and Scottish Gaelic. Beth is an associate artist at Theatre Gu Leòr, and a member of the Workers Theatre collective. Her poems have been published in New Writing Scotland 36 and Gutter, and her poem ‘Taobh na craoibhe’ was runner up in the 2019 Morton Writing Competition.

Photo: Robert Pereira Hind