Morelle Smith


Morelle Smith is a Scottish author of poetry, essays, fiction, and travel articles who currently lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Education

She studied French and English at the University of Edinburgh. She completed a post-graduate teaching certificate, and also took a course to teach English at the CELTA/RSA, and to teach French at the Centre International d’Études Pédagogiques in Sèvres, France.

Travel

After university, she traveled through India and Asia, then lived in Freiburg-im-Breisgau, Schwarzwald, where she modeled for drawing classes. She has participated in Writers' Residences in Serbia, Switzerland, and France. She worked for an NGO in Albania. She has also traveled to the US and throughout Europe. Sketches from her travels with musician John Renbourn are included in her work, ''Every Shade of Blue.''

Reviews

She writes reviews at Levure Litteraire and the Scottish Review.

Publishing

Her first published work was a short story, A Sleeping Sentry at the Gate of Time, in Chapman ''Magazine, 1980. Since then, her work has been translated into several languages, including French, Slovenian, Bulgarian, Romanian, and Albanian. Her poem, The Ravens and the Lemon Tree was reviewed in the poetry prose reviews magazine Acumen'', in May 2010, where it says, "She has a fine lyric gift."

Published works

Deepwater Terminal Streets of Tirana, Almost Spring The Way Words Travel Time Loop Gold Tracks, Fallen Fruit, a Quinta Journal