Tim Craven

Tim Craven is an Edinburgh-based poet whose work explores class, mental health, and modern masculinity through close attention to language, place, and lived experience. His debut collection, Good Sons (Blue Diode Press, 2025), won the Scottish National Book Award for a Debut Poetry Collection and was Highly Commended in the Forward Poetry Prizes. He holds an MFA and a PhD in Creative Writing, and has taught across a wide range of settings, from community contexts to academic environments. Alongside his literary practice, he has a professional background in the medical sciences, which informs his interest in psychology and physiology, and in how social pressures are embodied and experienced.

Tim has extensive experience delivering engaging readings, in-conversation events, and workshops across festivals, bookshops, universities, and public venues, and brings a thoughtful, approachable presence to live events