Cathy Forde is one of Scotland's leading novelists for young people. Her numerous contemporary and often Glaswegian novels include Fat Boy Swim, Skarrs, Sugarcoated and The Drowning Pond. Her novels are translated into several languages are studied as part of English curriculums throughout the UK. She is the Virtual Writer in Residence for Teens and Young People with the Scottish Booktrust, and has won the Grampian Book Award and Scottish Arts Council award. Empty, a National Theatre of Scotland commission, is her first play and her second, The Sunday Lesson, will be produced by Oran Mor.

Cathy Forde is one of Scotland's leading novelists for young people. Her numerous contemporary and often Glaswegian novels include Fat Boy Swim, Skarrs, Sugarcoated and The Drowning Pond. Her novels are translated into several languages are studied as part of English curriculums throughout the UK. She is the Virtual Writer in Residence for Teens and Young People with the Scottish Booktrust, and has won the Grampian Book Award and Scottish Arts Council award. Empty, a National Theatre of Scotland commission, is her first play and her second, The Sunday Lesson, will be produced by Oran Mor.

Cathy Forde is one of Scotland's leading novelists for young people. Her numerous contemporary and often Glaswegian novels include Fat Boy Swim, Skarrs, Sugarcoated and The Drowning Pond. Her novels are translated into several languages are studied as part of English curriculums throughout the UK. She is the Virtual Writer in Residence for Teens and Young People with the Scottish Booktrust, and has won the Grampian Book Award and Scottish Arts Council award. Empty, a National Theatre of Scotland commission, is her first play and her second, The Sunday Lesson, will be produced by Oran Mor.