High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Alan Jamieson is a Scottish and Shetlandic poet and novelist who grew up on the crofting community of Sandness. He is currently based in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he works as a Creative Writing tutor at Edinburgh University. He was co-editor of the Edinburgh Review from 1993–1998, as well as being a Creative Writing Fellow at the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde, 1998-2001.