David Kinloch was born, brought up and educated in Glasgow. He is a graduate of the Universities of Glasgow and Oxford and for many years earned his living as a University teacher of French holding posts in Paris, Oxford, Swansea and Salford.

Since 2003 he has been teaching creative writi­ng and Scottish literature at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow where he is currently Reader in Poetry. He is the author of five collections of poetry: Dustie-Fute (Vennel Press, 1992), Paris-Forfar (Polygon, 1994), Un Tour d'Ecosse (Carcanet, 2001), In My Father's House (Carcanet, 2005) and Finger of a Frenchman (Carcanet, 2011).

In 2004 he was a recipient of the Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Award; in 2008 he held a Writers' Bursary from the Scottish Arts Council and an award from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for his poetry. He was a founder editor of the internationally respected poetry magazine Verse and is a founder of the Scottish Writers' Centre. David is also a critic and scholar with many academic publications in the fields of French, Translation and Scottish Studies. Selected details of these publications may be found on the University of Strathclyde website.

Photography: Claire Quigley­­­