Rob Mackenzie wrote his first poem aged 13 but didn’t produce anything readable until 20 years later when New Writing Scotland accepted two. He performed regularly at the Bar Brel’s monthly poetry slot in Glasgow in the late 1990’s. In Turin he wrote two novels, both of which have sat in a box ever since. He now lives in Edinburgh with his wife and three-year-old daughter, and works as minister of St David’s Church, Broomhouse.