Brian Johnstone Author & Editor

Born in Edinburgh in 1950, Brian Johnstone has lived in the Fife countryside since 1972. He has published two full collections and three pamphlets, as well as appearing in anthologies and other publications in Scotland, elsewhere in the UK and in Europe and the Americas. His poems have been translated into more than 10 different languages. In 2009 a chapbook of his poems in Italian translation was published by L'Officina (Vincenza). I 1998 he was one of the founders of StAnza: Scotland's International Poetry Festival, and served as its drector from 2000-2010.