Gavin Bowd is a Scottish linguist and poet. He spent his childhood in the Scottish Borders and Hong Kong, and studied and taught in Paris and St. Andrews. He now teaches in the School of Modern Languages at the University of St Andrews.
Bowd was one of the founding directors of the StAnza poetry festival, and his poetry, fiction and translations have been widely published. He has written much on Scottish and European literature and politics, with special interests in French and Romanian politics and culture. He has published on Ian Hamilton Finlay, and Kenneth White and geopoetics.