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.

 

Colin's work has been published widely in magazines such as Poetry Review, Irish Pages, The London Magazine, PN Review, Magma, The Rialto, New Writing Scotland, Interpret, Poetry Scotland and The Scotsman; and is forthcoming in Poetry Ireland Review and Poetry London.

 

He was the runner-up for the 2020 Edwin Morgan Prize; his translations of Yang Mu won the 2018 John Dryden Translation Competition; his translation of Ko-Hua Chen’s Decapitated Poetry won the 2024 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize. Other works have been longlisted for the Saltire Book Prize, the Highland Book Prize and the Scots Language awards. He holds a doctorate in creative writing from the University of St Andrews. He writes in English and Scots.

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Colin's debut collection, Fetch, will be published by And Other Stories in 2026.