Elected: 2023
Born and raised in New Zealand, Robyn Marsack obtained her DPhil from Oxford, and began her career in publishing at Carcanet Press. On moving to Glasgow, she became a freelance editor, critic and occasional translator from French. Director of the Scottish Poetry Library 2000-2016, she was later an RLF Writing Fellow at Glasgow University. She has served on the boards of literary organisations in England, Scotland and Wales, remaining on the boards of Carcanet and of the grant-making Edwin Morgan Trust. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Fellows are nominated by peers and elected by our Council of writers – our governing Board. Being elected a Fellow of the RSL is a lifetime honour. This role gives them the opportunity to support other writers, readers and the future of literature. The RSL connects writers in the Fellowship to one another, and to a wider readership.
