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Author Description Gerry Cambridge lives in Ayr, Scotland. He co-edits <i>Spectrum</i>. His six books of poetry include <i>Notes for Lighting a Fire</i> (2012) and <i>The Light Acknowledgers & Other Poems</i> (2019), both from HappenStance Press. He founded <i>The Dark Horse</i>, Scotland’s leading poetry journal, in 1995. He is also an essayist, print designer, typographer, and former nature photographer. He continued to live in a caravan in Ayrshire, adjacent to the one mentioned in this account, from 1977–1997, then left to become Brownsbank Fellow in MacDiarmid’s former home for 1997–1999. As a critic he contributed ten essays to the four-volume <i>Oxford Encyclopaedia of American Literature</i> (2004) and wrote nine 12,000-word monograph essays for the Gale/Charles Scribner’s Sons textbook series <i>British Writers</i> and <i>American Writers</i> between 2000 and 2006. In his mid-twenties he was, as far as he knows, one of the youngest-ever regular freelancers—specialising in nature articles—for the UK edition of <i>The Reader’s Digest</i> magazine, which at the time (the 1980s) had a monthly circulation of 1.5 million copies. An Honorary Fellow of the Association for Scottish Literature, he received a Cholmondeley Award for his poetry, administered by the Society of Authors in London, in June 2024. <i>The Ayrshire Nestling</i> is his first book of creative prose.

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