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Sheena Blackhall
Sheena Blackhall
Sheena Blackhall

Sheena Blackhall

Aberdeen, Scotland, born 1947
About MeLanguage loyalist Sheena Blackhall is a prize-winning poet and the author of many collections of short stories and poems written in Doric or North-East Scots. She is celebrated for her innovative emphasis on the ‘colour’ of words, focusing on rhythms and rhymes. In 2009 she became Makar – the Poet Laureate – for Aberdeen and the North-East.

Sheena is a prolific writer, illustrator and traditional ballad singer. She has published novellas, Scots books for bairns, short story collections, and over 100 poetry pamphlets. Born in Aberdeen, Sheena initially became a primary school teacher and later studied psychology at the University of Aberdeen. Her work has been widely broadcast on television and radio and she has played an instrumental role in raising the profile of Scots. Sheena translated Julia Donaldson’s best-selling children’s story The Gruffalo into Doric.
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