Colin Bramwell is a writer and translator, mainly of poetry. He was born in Ayrshire, grew up in Fortrose on the Black Isle and lives in Edinburgh. He writes his poems and prose in English and Scots.

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Colin's writing has been published widely in magazines and periodicals, including the New Statesman, The Observer, Poetry London, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Review, Irish Pages, The London Magazine, PN Review, Magma, The Rialto, New Writing Scotland, Interpret, Wet Grain, and Poetry Scotland.

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He was the runner-up for the 2020 Edwin Morgan Prize. His translations of the Taiwanese poet Yang Mu won the John Dryden Translation Competition; his translation of Ko-Hua Chen’s Decapitated Poetry won the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize. His first book of translations into Scots, Fower Pessoas (Carcanet 2025), won the Highland Book Prize and the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize, and was shortlisted for best book at the Scots Language awards and selected as one of The TLS Best Books of 2025.  

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Colin's debut collection of poems, Fetch, will be published by And Other Stories in September of 2026. Fetch is a Poetry Book Society Autumn 2026 Recommendation.