Morag Edward was last seen heading into the wilderness on an old motorbike and has rarely been spotted since. Mo’s photographs, paintings and short stories always make their own way back into the city, a little singed around the edges but ready to amaze, delight or disgust.

Mo has short stories published in a variety of anthologies including Read by Dawn II, Read by Dawn III, Imagine Coal, SlingInk Shorts and Recognition.

2009 was a good year for writing. Mo was one of the guest authors in Story Shop at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in August, in September she won the Highlands and Islands Short Story Competition and had a story accepted into the latest Earlyworks anthology, then in October Bloc Press published a collection of her cautionary culinary tales ‘Nil by Mouth’, available from Transreal Fiction and Forbidden Planet independant bookshops, Edinburgh.

In 2010 Mo will be one of the writers of ‘26 Treasures’ at the V&A, part of the London Festival of Design in September. Before then you can catch her at the Edinburgh International Book Festival and the Big Red Door.

You can read Mo online too.  Her sporadic blogging can be found on three sites: velocity-m – an irreverant guide to and review of wheelchair accessible events and venues around the city, plus things to do while sitting down and a list of people to run over. It appears as a guest blog in the Edinburgh Guardian from time to time and is of course is also the must-have guide to wheelin’ at the Festival Fringe in August.

http://velocity-m.blogspot.com

The other blogs cover more grim territory, documenting the isolation from chronic illness, but also following the progress of various art and multi-media projects and plans, so far ranging from motorbike illustrations to a 12 feet high flaming archway, via the blue singing kitten. One day there will be a degree show to cover…

Mo does escape from time to time. On those occasions she can be found at Edinburgh College of Art, te POOKa’s Big Red Door and Portobello beach. Her current life plan is to find a chauffeured campervan with a physio/ massage therapist in the hold, a kayak on the roof, a trail bike on the back, gadgets on the dashboard and a very well-stocked fridge, then embark on an exploration of the scottish coastline and summer festivals, writing and sketching all the way. Volunteers apply here. xxx