Kathleen Jamie has won the Costa award for poetry for her collection The Overhaul, which has also been shortlisted for the TS Eliot prize. It is her first collection since she won the Forward prize in 2004 for The Tree House. Jamie was born in 1962 in the west of Scotland. Her eight collections of poetry also include The Queen of Sheba, Mr & Mrs Scotland are Dead, and Jizzen, and have garnered three TS Eliot award nominations, two Geoffrey Faber Memorial prizes, and two Forward poetry prizes. She currently holds the chair in creative writing at the University of Stirling.