Mhairi Owens is the winner of Plough’s 2021 Rhina Espaillat Poetry Award. She is a community worker living in Fife, Scotland, who writes poetry in both English and Scots. Her work has appeared in various anthologies and journals, including Poetry Salzburg Review, The Moth, The North, and The Rialto. Her Scots poem “Shiftin” won the 2019 international Wigtown Poetry Prize.