Raymond Ross
RAYMOND ROSS (Playwright -JOSEF) Born in West Lothian in 1953, Raymond is a graduate of Edinburgh and Stirling Universities and Moray House College (M.A. Ph.D. Dip.Ed.) He is a playwright, freelance writer, editor, journalist, education correspondent and an Associate Lecturer with the Open University in Scotland. He is also an OU Prisons Tutor. He is a co-founder and the Editor of Cencrastus magazine (Scottish and International Literature, Arts and Affairs), funded by the Scottish Arts Council since 1979. Also contributing co-editor of critical books on poets Sorley MacLean and Norman MacCaig. Raymond writes regularly for the Times Educational Supplement Scotland and has contributed articles, interviews, poetry, prose, theatre and book reviews to most Scottish literary publications and newspapers since 1979/1980 including The Scotsman, The Herald, Scotland on Sunday, Chapman, Radical Scotland. From 1989 until 1995 he was Theatre Editor of the Edinburgh Evening News. He is a Scotsman Festival/Fringe reviewer. Raymond is a member of the Scottish Society of Playwrights, the National Union of Journalists and is registered with the General Teaching Council. He teaches creative writing at Edinburgh University's Centre for Continuing Education and tutors therein Scottish Literature summer schools.
