Michael Pedersen is a prize-winning Scottish poet and author. He's published two acclaimed collections of poetry, his second Oyster being a collaboration with Scott Hutchison. His prose debut, Boy Friends, was published by Faber & Faber in 2022 to rave reviews in the UK and North America and was a Sunday Times Critics Choice. Pedersen also won a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship and the John Mather's Trust Rising Star of Literature Award. Pedersen's work has attracted praise from the likes of Stephen Fry, Kae Tempest, Irvine Welsh, Maggie Smith, Sara Pascoe, and many more. Co-founder of the literary collective Neu! Reekie!, he is the 2023-2025 Writer in Residence at The University of Edinburgh.