Deborah Moffatt is from Vermont and settled in Fife in 1982, after several years of working in Latin America. She writes in Gaelic and English, and has published collections of poetry in both languages, including Eating Thistles (Smokestack Books, 2018) and Dàin nan Dùil (CLÀR, 2018). Her poems have been widely published in journals and anthologies, including Poems of the Decade (Faber, 2011). She has won a number of prizes for her poetry, and has twice won both the Wigtown Poetry Competition (Gaelic section) and the MacDonald of Sleat Poetry Prize. She has also worked as a journalist, a dancer and a musician.
