Andy Jackson was born in 1965 in Salford and moved to Scotland in 1992. In his day job, he is the Medical Librarian at Dundee University. His poems have appeared in Magma, Blackbox Manifold, Trespass and New Writing Scotland, among other publications. He was winner of the National Galleries of Scotland competition in 2008 and the inaugural Baker Prize in 2012. His first collection The Assassination Museum was published by Red Squirrel Press in 2010, and he was editor of Split Screen: poetry inspired by film & television, published in 2012, also by Red Squirrel. He is currently co-editing an anthology of poetry about the city of Dundee with W. N. Herbert, for publication in 2012 by Dundee University Press.