Douglas Thompson’s short stories have appeared in a wide range of magazines and anthologies, most recently Albedo One, Ambit, Postscripts, and New Writing Scotland. He won the Grolsch/Herald Question of Style Award in 1989 and second prize in the Neil Gunn Writing Competition in 2007. His first book, Ultrameta, was published in August 2009, nominated for the Edge Hill Prize, and shortlisted for the BFS Best Newcomer Award, and since then he has published four subsequent novels, Sylvow (2010), Apoidea (2011), Mechagnosis (2012), Entanglement (2012) and has two forthcoming in 2014, The Brahan Seer and Volwys. The Rhymer is his eighth novel and the second to be published by Elsewhen Press.