Julie Laing is a writer and artist from Glasgow. Her debut poetry pamphlet, ‘the edge of rhizome’ was published by Red Squirrel Press in 2025 and her visual poetry collection, ‘some possible endings & beginnings’, is forthcoming with Art Riot Press in 2026. She won The William Bonar Poetry Prize (2023) and The Wigtown Poetry Prize (2022) and has been published in New Writing Scotland, Gutter magazine, Studies in Photography, The Edwin Morgan Centenary Collection and elsewhere. Julie has delivered sessions and readings at StAnza International Poetry Festival, Push the Boat Out and Edinburgh Photographic Society. Her visual art, including poem-sculptures, has been shown at various venues in the UK and Singapore, and with off-page, a development programme of ‘visual poetry | the poetic visual’, which she co-founded with CD Boyland. She was a mentee of Clydebuilt 13 poetry mentorship programme led by Gerry Cambridge