Rona Munro is a prize-winning British writer, currently living in London. She has authored a dozen plays, some with other writers for stage, radio and television. Munro was born in 1959 in Scotland. Encouraged by her family, she began to write as a young child. After university she joined a group called Edinburgh Playwrights Workshop, for the reading and discussion of newly created works. One of her claims to fame is that she wrote the last Doctor Who serial to air, in 1989.