Toni Davidson

Toni Davidson lives and works in Glasgow, but was born in Ayr in 1965. He has written two books – the novel Scar Culture, one of The List’s 100 Best Scottish Books of All Time, and the short story anthology The Gradual Gathering of Lust. Scar Culture has been published in 14 countries around the world.

He has also contributed to and edited three important anthologies of writing – And Thus I Will Freely Sing (1989), the first collection of LGBT writing from Scotland, Intoxication: An Anthology of Stimulant-Based Writing, and Damage Land: New Scottish Gothic Fiction. He has described his writing as “forms of cultural activism”.