Ian Hunter

Ian Hunter (he/him) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and lives in the Royal Burgh of Lanark, famous for its Lanimer celebrations and also various scrimmages that William Wallace of Braveheart fame was involved in. He is a children’s author, short story writer, editor and poet. Since 2008 he has been poetry editor for the British Fantasy Society. He is also a member of the Glasgow SF Writers Circle, Biggar Writers Association and the Science Fiction Poetry Association. His work has appeared in places like “New Writing Scotland”, “Unsung Stories”, “Dreich”, “Shoreline of Infinity”, “Occult Detective Monthly”, “Visual Verse”, “Dreams and Nightmares”, “Star*Line”, and many other magazines and anthologies in the UK, USA and Canada. He has twice been a writer-in residence and was a director of the Scottish writer’s collective, Read Raw, and still looks after Read Raw Press. He reviews for the British Fantasy Society, and the website Concatenation, where his convention reports also appear. He is the proud owner of 1000 trees in Korup rain forest in Cameroon and has adopted a polar bear called Svetlana who writes regularly and says she is looking forward to eating – no – meeting Jessie, his black labrador. 

Read Hunter’s poetry selection Three Distorted Visions in Horrific Scribes.

Description: The poems in Three Distorted Visions were inspired by being surrounded by images of Elvis at different stages of his career, being surrounded by images of Scrooge and the ghosts he encounters, and also being surrounded by strange beings with round faces, round eyes and round mouths, but what do those eyes and mouths contain?