Ian Duhig worked with homeless people for fifteen years before becoming a writer. He has won the Forward Best Poem Prize once, the National Poetry Competition twice, and his New and Selected Poems won the 2022 Hawthornden Prize for Literature. An Arbitrary Light Bulb was the Poetry Book Society 2024 Winter Choice.

Ian Duhig's work featured in Stand Magazine comprises three contributions of poetry and three articles, over a period of 22 years.