Eddie Gibbons was born in Huyton, Liverpool, but has been living and working in Aberdeen since 1981. An engineering draughtsman by trade, he is also a poet with four published collections. His first collection Stations of the Heart was published in 1999, when he was aged fifty. In 2008, he was a runner up in the inaugural Edwin Morgan Poetry Collection with his poem 'Henri Rousseau Meets Frank O'Hara'. Football features prominently in his work - his third collection, Game On!, is inspired by the sport - and he is a member of the Football Poets website. His collection What They Say About You was published in 2010 by Leamington Books.