Alan MacGillivray

Alan MacGillivray is a teacher, lecturer and poet, born in Fife, raised in Dumfries and now living and working near Glasgow. He taught English in schools across Scotland, before lecturing at Jordanhill College of Education for fifteen years. He has also lectured in Scottish Literature at the University of Strathclyde. As an academic, he has written widely on Scottish literature, and has written two of the ASLS’s Scotsnotes guides (for Greenvoe and Iain Banks).

As a poet, MacGillivray has published three collections under his own imprint, and his latest book An Altitude Within was published by Kennedy & Boyd in 2010. His third collection, the saga of fnc gull, a twelve-part verse monologue, was selected as one of the Scottish Poetry Library’s best Scottish poems of 2009.