Liz Lochhead (b. Motherwell, 1947) is a Scottish poet and playwright. Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University (1986-7) and Royal Shakespeare Company in 1988, her first collection of poems, Memo for Spring, was published in 1972, winning a Scottish Arts Council Book Award. A performer as well as a poet, her revue Sugar and Spite was staged in 1978. Other plays include Blood and Ice (1982), first performed at the Edinburgh Traverse in 1982; Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off (1989), first performed by Communicado Theatre Company at the 1987 Edinburgh festival; Dracula (1989); Cuba (1997), a play for young people commissioned by the Royal National Theatre for the BT National Connections Scheme; and Perfect Days (1998), first performed at the Edinburgh festival in 1998. She has also done many adaptations.
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