Career
McMillan lives in Penpont and taught history in Dumfries Academy until retiring in 2013. He has received several bursaries from the Scottish Arts Council and Creative Scotland. In 2014 he was awarded the very first literature commission by the Wigtown Book Festival to create a work inspired by the 19th Century work "The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopaedia" by John Mactaggart.
"McMillan"s Galloway", the result of this work, was published in limited edition in 2014, and a revised edition published by Luath in 2015.
His Selected and New Poems, "Not Actually being in Dumfries" was published by Luath in 2015. His poetry has been anthologized and broadcast widely and he has read in events and poetry festivals worldwide.
His poetry collections include Thin Slice of Moon, (Roncadora 2013), The Lost Garden (Roncadora 2010), Strange Bamboo (Shoestring 2006) Aphrodite"s Anorak (Peterloo, 1996), After A Storm (Smith/Doorstep, 2005),Horridge(Chapman, 1990), Tramontana (Dog and Bone, 1989).