Fred Johnston was born in Belfast in 1951: a novelist and short story writer, his collection of poems, Alligator Days (Revival Press) came out in 2015. Rogue States, a new collection, will be published by Salmon Poetry in September. Recent poems have appeared in The Spectator and The New Statesman.

Fred Johnston's work featured in Stand Magazine comprises two contributions of poetry and two articles, over a period of 17 years.