Kris has been writing plays, pantos, poems and prose since his teens.

A 2016 graduate of the University of Glasgow's MLitt Creative Writing, he is currently pursuing a PhD as a DFA Creative Writing candidate. Alongside his thesis on South West Scots dialect, he is writing his first novel. This work in progress - currently titled When the Curlew Cries No More - was shortlisted for the North Lit Agency Prize 2021, before winning the Bloody Scotland Crime Writing Festival's 2021 Pitch Perfect event.

In the past three years, Kris had a play longlisted for The St Andrews Playwriting Award, expanded his publishing credits with Scots language short stories in New Writing Scotland 40, Gutter 27, Gutter 28, and Power Cut 2, had a site-specific audio story produced as part of High Street Multiverse, a four month writing residency at The Stove, Dumfries, culminating in a QR code walking trail being installed in the town centre.

From 2022-2024, he worked on a project with the DeathWrites Network, interogating material compiled over two decades in An Appendix of Grief.

In this same period, Kris revived his former social media storytelling experiment Haud the Bus as a satire column in a local newspaper in Dumfries and Galloway. Originally a series of stories posted on the Number 9 bus from Paisley to Glasgow between 2008-2015, this new incarnation in Scots serialises Kris's mishaps and adventures as he travels around Europe by coach.

In 2011, Kris wrote and performed his one-man comedy 2h:9m:37s for the Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival before touring Scotland in Spring 2012. Acting credits include King Lear Citizens Theatre (Best Music and Sound, CATS 2012), Girl X and Five Minute Theatre National Theatre of Scotland (twice), Romeo and Juliet Scottish Ballet (tour, twice), On the Rim of the World Scottish Opera & Citizens Theatre, music/vocals for Fair Friday Citz Community Co, Garrow's Law BBC Scotland.

A trained baritone, Kris has been a regular turn at Burns Suppers, Christmas Concerts and Musical Theatre Revues across Scotland for over 20 years. He has Addressed the Haggis at Moniack Mhor during multiple retreats, and in 2024, was privileged to perform his full Solo Burns Supper set at Burns' former home, Ellisland Farm and Museum.

A former mentee of the Playwrights' Studio, Scotland, Kris was previously attached to the Traverse Theatre as one of their Traverse Fifty emerging writers. He was a Scottish Book Trust Ignite Fellow in 2024, receiving support with his novel, and was awarded Creative Scotland Open Funding in 2025 to develop nonfiction work via Granta's Memoir Writing Workshop.

Kris has been Co-Chair of the Scottish Society of Playwrights, since 2024, and a Council member since 2022. He was appointed as a Trustee of the Edwin Morgan Trust in 2025.