Elizabeth Anne Lochhead was born in Craigneuk,[4] a "little ex-mining village just outside Motherwell",[5] Lanarkshire. Her mother and father had both served in the army during the Second World War, and later, her father was a local government clerk. In 1952, the family moved into a new council house in the mining village of Newarthill, where her sister was born in 1957.[6] Though she was encouraged by her teachers to study English,[6] Lochhead was determined to go to Glasgow School of Art where she studied between 1965 and 1970.[2] After graduation Lochhead taught art at high schools in Glasgow and Bristol,[7] a career at which she says she was "terrible"[2]
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