Christie Williamson spent his formative years in Yell, the second biggest island in Shetland. His poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies across Scotland and have been commended in competitions. In 2008-9 he was one of four mentees in St Mungo's Mirrorball's inaugural Clydebuilt mentoring scheme. Arc o Möns, translations of Federico Garcia Lorca's poetry into the Shetland dialect was published in 2009 by Hansel Co-operative Press. It was the joint winner of the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award in May 2010.