Michael Grieve lives in his native Fife. He was shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award in 2020 and his pamphlet Luck is published by HappenStance Press. Other poems have appeared in Magma, Perverse, and The Scores, as well as Chinese Makars, a Sino-Scots translation project organised by the University of St Andrews. A former bookseller at Topping & Company, he is currently training to be an English teacher. He exists online as www.michael-grieve.com.

Photo: A Leverton