Laura Kelly Dunlop is a journalist and the Director of the Edinburgh International Magazine Festival, as well as running PPA Scotland. She has contributed interviews, features, commentary, news and reviews to The Big Issue, The Herald, BBC Northern Ireland, The Skinny and street papers around the world. Her regular column for Holyrood magazine saw her named as 2019 Columnist of the Year at the Words by Women Awards. She has previously been the Arts and Features Editor for The Big Issue, and Editorial and Communications Manager for INSP (International Network of Street Papers), where she managed a news service that went to more than 120 global street papers. Her favourite interviewing moment was explaining the Higgs Boson to David Attenborough.