Richard Price grew up in Renfrewshire. He was educated at Napier College and the University of Strathclyde, where his doctoral thesis was on the novels and plays of Neil M. Gunn. He was the Head of Modern British Collections at the British Library from 2003 to 2010. He is a founder editor (with Raymond Friel) of magazines Southfields and Painted. He is associated with the 1990s grouping of poets called the Informationists, whic also includes W. N Herbert, David Kinloch, Peter McCarey and Alan Riach. He is also a member of the London-based Poetry Workshop. His publications include Marks & Sparks (Akros, 1995), Perfume & Petrol Fumes (Diehard, 1999), and Frosted, Melted (Diehard, 2002). Lucky Day (2005), Greenfields (2007), and Rays (2009) were all published by Carcanet. Lucky Day was shortlisted for the Forward Prize. He also writes fiction: A Boy in Summer (2002) is a book of linked short-stories while The Island (2010) is a suspense story that charts the strangest day in the life of a father and his daughter. In 2011 the musical project for which he is the principle lyricist, Mirabeau, released its first album, Golden Key. Several of the songs are settings of poems from his earlier poetry collections.