Born in Glasgow in 1962, Peter Arnott is the writer of 50 professionally produced stage plays including White Rose, The Boxer Benny Lynch, The Breathing House (TMA Best New Play 2003), Why Do You Stand There in the Rain? (Edinburgh Fringe First 2012), Janis Joplin: Full Tilt, Monarch of the Glen (CATS Award for Best New Scottish Play 2018), The Signalman (CATS award 2020). He has been Writer in Residence at the Tron, the Traverse, The National Library of Scotland, Genomics Forum and IASH at Edinburgh University. His novel, Moon Country, was published in 2015.