Anne Frater was born in 1967 in the Isle of Lewis, and brought up with Gaelic as her first language. After gaining an MA (Hons) in Celtic and French, then a PhD in Celtic (Scottish Gaelic Women’s Poetry up to 1750), both from Glasgow University. Anne has worked in the media in various guises (researcher, subtitler and scriptwriter) for several years before returning to Lewis in 1999.

Her poetry has been published in the collection Fo’n t-Slige (Gairm, 1995) and the anthologies An Aghaidh na Sìorraidheachd (Polygon, 1991), An Anthology of Scottish Women’s Poetry (Edinburgh University Press, 1991), Siud an t-Eilean (Acair, 1993), Dream State: The New Scottish Poets (Polygon, Edinburgh 1994) and An Tuil (Polygon, 1999); as well as in various magazines.

She has also contributed to The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women (Edinburgh University Press, 2006), An Leabhar Mòr (Canongate, 2002) and A History of Scottish Women’s Writing (Edinburgh University Press, 1997).

Married with one child, Anne now lives in her native village of Pabail Uarach (Upper Bayble) and is working as a lecturer on the UHIMI Gaelic degree courses at Lews Castle College.