Ken Cockburn is a poet, translator, editor and writing tutor, based in Edinburgh. Formerly Fieldworker and Assistant Director at the Scottish Poetry Library, he has wide experience of running writing workshops for children and adults.
He was awarded the Arts Foundation Fellowship for Literary Translation 2008, and a Creative Scotland ‘Vital Spark’ Award in 2010 for The Road North, a collaboration with Alec Finlay. His poem ‘Pandora’s Light Box’, commissioned by Artlink, was recently installed at the Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh.
