Marie Dunlop was born in Anderston, Glasgow and moved out after starting school when the redevelopment of the area and the building of the Kingston Bridge started.  She is a wife, a mother, a grandmother and a graduate of The Open University, reading English Language and Literature.  She also does work within the homelessness sector.  Set in Anderston in the mid-nineteen-sixties, Building Bridges is the second of her plays and she is currently working on a crime novel, again set in the West of Scotland.