A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

Dee Rimbaud was born in 1962, in Glasgow, Scotland. He started writing poetry in his teens and was inspired to take his writing seriously after he won the Lochaber High School poetry competition in 1979. He was active in the London poetry scene in the early 80's and published a couple of chapbooks. He produced an alternative arts/ poetry zine, Dada Dance from 1984 to 1990.

In 1986, he commenced studies at Edinburgh College Of Art, specialising in Sculpture, which he studied to post-graduate level. Whilst at art school he won an Andrew Grant travelling scholarship to India; a John Kinross Scholarship to Florence, Italy; and participated in an exchange programme, studying for three months at L'Ecole Des Beaux Arts, Le Havre, France.

After graduating, he worked in community arts, arts development, film & television, and as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer. He did his fair share of less glamorous jobs too, including a six-month stint in a fish factory. He's also put in a great many unpaid hours as editor of Acid Angel and The AA Independent Press Guide.

Dee's great passion is travel. He spends as much time as is humanly possible on holiday and is as happy hitching round the back roads of Ireland as he is climbing volcanoes in Indonesia. He is something of a modern day nomad; and in his mid-forties is as unsettled as ever, which is a state he prefers. He's pleased to still be unable to predict what he'll be doing this time next year.

At present, he's living in Glasgow, after nine months of travelling round France, Spain & Portugal in a camper van. He is currently working on a third poetry collection and a second novel.

To view a full list of Dee's publication credits and illustration & graphic design commissions, click here

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