Meg Bateman, born Edinburgh 1959, taught Gaelic, which she learned in South Uist and Aberdeen University, at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, in Skye. Her poetry collections are Òrain Ghaoil/Amhráin Ghrá (1989), Aotromachd/Lightness (1997), Soirbheas/ Fair Wind (2007) and Transparencies (2013). She has co-edited and translated five anthologies of historical Gaelic verse, and with John Purser, she wrote Window-to-the-West.pdf (uhi.ac.uk) on Culture and Environment in the Scottish Gàidhealtachd. Now, largely retired, she does a little editing and looks after her grandchild.