David Ralston Morrison (4 August 1941 – 1 September 2012) was a Scottish author, editor and painter.
He subsequently held positions with Lanarkshire Library Services, Edinburgh College of Art and at Caithness, Sutherland, Scotland, as Principal Assistant Librarian.
Following local authority regionalization in 1975, Morrison was appointed Divisional Librarian for Caithness and Sutherland, then Area Librarian for Caithness and Sutherland, under Highland Council.
[1][2][3] David Morrison founded the Wick Festival of Poetry, Folk and Jazz and is the author or editor of numerous works, including books of poetry and essays, and including those on the works of Neil M. Gunn and Fionn MacColla.
In 1970 he founded the Scotia Review,[4] a radical literary magazine which he was to edit for the next 34 years, handing over the editorship in 2004.