Cynthia Rogerson, a Scot who was born and brought up in the U.S., now lives with her husband and four children in the Scottish Highlands. She was short-listed for the Macallan/Scotland on Sunday short story competition in 1998, and has been short-listed three times for the Neil Gunn Prize. She was awarded a bursary by the Scottish Arts Council to write UPSTAIRS IN THE TENT.