Robyn Marsack, Director
rmarsack@spl.org.uk

Robyn was born and grew up in New Zealand, attended university there and then gained her doctorate from Oxford University, where she also did some teaching before joining Carcanet Press. Having been a freelance publishers' editor, reviewer and translator since moving to Scotland in 1987, she became Director of the SPL in 2000.

Julie Johnstone, Librarian
julie.johnstone@spl.org.uk

Julie started in the SPL as a volunteer cataloguer in 2000. Since then she's worked on several freelance projects such as managing the online Best Scottish Poems; has edited The Thing that Mattered Most: Scottish poems for children; and worked as Education Development Officer. She leads the SPL Poetry Book Group, and organises the Library's annual 'By Leaves We Live' fair.

She holds an MSc in Library and Information Services from Robert Gordon University; her MSc research was on subject indexing. She also runs Essence Press, and edits island magazine.

Lizzie has been a lover of poetry since she was twelve, a librarian since she was twenty-one, and has been at the SPL since 1993, happily combining professional practice and personal preference. Library training was done with Lanarkshire County Libraries, and a degree in Librarianship at Strathclyde University was followed by a cataloguer's post at Edinburgh University Library. At the SPL, as well as cataloguing and indexing, Lizzie looks after the periodicals collection and answers reference enquiries.

Lilias Fraser, Reader Development Officer
lfraser@spl.org.uk

Lilias joined the SPL in 2003 after postgraduate research at the University of St Andrews on contemporary Scottish poetry, and a motley collection of arts and publishing jobs. She works on all manner of events programming with the SPL's core and outlying collections. She is a Board member of the National Association for Literature Development. From 2007-2009 Lilias will be working on the Scottish Poetry Library's reader development project funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, including a new readers' website, librarians' training, Poetry Boxes and events with the outlying collections.

Lorna Irvine, Education Officer
education@spl.org.uk

Lorna has worked in education and the arts for 25 years, as a teacher, writer, performer and workshop leader. She enjoys working on diverse poetry projects in the library, in schools and with a wide range of cultural partners and organizations. Call her with your poetry questions, ideas and ambitions, to find out about or get involved in SPL projects or to arrange a visit-session to the library for your group.

Jane Alexander, Marketing Officer
marketing@spl.org.uk

Having trained as an illustrator at Edinburgh College of Art, Jane worked for various small design and publishing companies before joining the marketing team at London-based national youth charity Fairbridge. She moved back to Scotland in 2003 to study creative writing at Glasgow University and to take up the newly-created position of Marketing Officer at the SPL.

Richard Meyer-Glass, Administrator
inquiries@spl.org.uk

Richard has worked for the SPL for 16 years, taking the post of Administrator in 2000. He was brought up in Cheshire and has strong family roots in Edinburgh, East Lothian, Orkney and Ireland. He had many years' experience in the retail sector before studying as a mature student at Newbattle Abbey College. Among his many responsibilities are managing the SPL shop, both on- and offline, and administering the Friends scheme.

Peggy Hughes, Communications Officer
reception@spl.org.uk

Peggy is from Northern Ireland and studied English Literature at the University of St Andrews. She arrived at the SPL in December 2007 via StAnza, the Edinburgh International Book Festival and several second-hand bookshops. She is in the business of communication.

Ryan Van Winkle, Reader in Residence

Ryan is Reader in Residence with the Scottish Poetry Library and Edinburgh City Libraries from June 2008-June 2009.