Ian Burgham was born in Auckland, New Zealand and raised in Canada. He has lived in New Zealand and subsequently in Scotland, where he attended the University of Edinburgh and, more recently, worked as an editor and publisher. His poetry books include A Confession of Birds (2003), The Stone-Skippers (2007), The Grammar of Distance (2010), and The Unquiet (2012). He has performed his work in many venues, published in a number of literary journals, and toured the UK, reading at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and at Canada House in London. He lives with his wife at his lakeside home near Sydenham, Ontario.
