Duncan Stewart Muir grew up in the Scottish Hebrides where he spent his childhood
riding horses on the beach and terrorising small furry animals. After flirting with art, fashion design and journalism he finally came to study writing in Liverpool.

There he was a regular performer at The Dead Good Poets Society, told dark and filthy stories via live video link across the Atlantic to the Los Angeles Story Salon, and co-edited the literary magazine In The Red, publishing writers such as Benjamin Zephaniah, Pascale Petite and Dave Eggers.

He undertook his MLitt in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow, graduating with distinction in 2010, and went on to represent the university in the Edinburgh International Book Festival the same year.

In 2018 he was a recipient of The Scottish Book Trust’s New Writer’s Award for Poetry. Duncan’s poetry has been published in Poetry Review, PN Review, New Writing Scotland, The Dark Horse, Blast Furnace and In Protest: 150 Poems for Human Rights.

He lives in Glasgow where he works as an English teacher.