Stewart Conn (born 1936) is a Scottish poet and playwright, born in Hillhead, Glasgow.[1] His father was a minister at Kelvinside Church but the family moved to Kilmarnock, Ayrshire in 1941 when he was five.[1][2] During the 1960s and 1970s, he worked for the BBC at their offices off Queen Margaret Drive[1] and moved to Edinburgh in 1977, where until 1992 he was based as BBC Scotland's head of radio drama.[3] He was Edinburgh's first makar or poet laureate in 2002–05.