Vivienne Margaret 'Meg' Bateman (born 1959) is a Scottish academic, poet and short story writer.

She studied Celtic at the University of Aberdeen and completed a PhD in medieval Scottish Gaelic language religious poetry.

[4] In 2011, Bateman's first published Scottish Gaelic short story, entitled Chanadh gun d'chur i às dha, appeared in the short story collection Saorsa published by CLÀR.

[6] Her Scottish Gaelic poetry has appeared in several anthologies, including Other Tongues (1990) and Twenty of the Best (1990).

She has also translated poems from Gaelic into English for An Anthology of Scottish Women Poets (1991) and The Harp's Cry (1993).