Beatrice Colin

Beatrice Colin (14 October 1963 – 6 February 2019) was a British novelist, radio dramatist, and senior lecturer in creative writing at the University of Strathclyde.

[1][2][3] After graduating from the University of Glasgow, she worked as a journalist for the arts and features pages of publications including The Scotsman, Sunday Herald and The Guardian.

[4][5] She completed her PhD in creative writing at the University of Strathclyde in 2008.

[5] Colin married Ewan Morrison in 1996; the couple had two children, Theo in 1998 and Frances in 2001.

Colin was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2016, from which she died in 2019 aged 55.