Ross MacKay
Author
Ross MacKay is an award-winning poet, author, playwright, screenwriter and occasional magician from Fife.
He has writing credits on forthcoming shows for CBBC and CBeebies alongside several new picture books due to be released in the coming years.
Ross was previously artistic director of Tortoise in a Nutshell, a puppet theatre company. His productions toured across the world and received numerous prestigious awards including a Scotsman Fringe First and a Critic’s Pick from The New York Times.
He won a William Soutar Award for Poetry and a Tom McGrath Maverick Award for his writing in 2020. He was shortlisted for the Kelpies Award in 2025 and won a Royal Society of Literature’ Literature Matters Award in the same year.
He is also the proud owner of a Blue Peter Badge.
