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

He is a former mentee of the Playwrights' Studio, Scotland, and was previously attached to the Traverse Theatre as one of their Traverse Fifty emerging writers.

A 2016 graduate of the University of Glasgow's MLitt Creative Writing, he is currently pursuing their DFA Creative Writing as a research candidate. Alongside his PhD thesis, he is editing a new collection of poetry as well as 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, and went on to be the winning pitch at the Bloody Scotland Crime Writing Festival's 2021 Pitch Perfect event.

In the past two years, Kris has had a play longlist for The St Andrews Playwriting Award, expanded his publishing credits with Scots language short stories in New Writing Scotland 40, Gutter 27 and Gutter 28, and had his site-specific audio short story Reflections produced as part of High Street Multiverse, a 4 month writing residency at The Stove, Dumfries which saw a QR code walking trail installed around the town centre.

He also joined the DeathWrites Network to spend time from 2022-2024 interogating material compiled over almost two decades in an Appendix of Grief.

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

Kris has won awards for his poetry and short stories written in Scots. His poem On Times Austere was engraved in glass and installed at The Globe Inn, Dumfries following Windows for Burns Night in 2012, and can still be visited today. In 2011, Ronnie's Story won the national short fiction contest run by 'see me' Scotland.

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. Other credits include King Lear Citizens Theatre (Best Music and Sound, CATS 2012), Girl X and Five Minute Theatre (twice) National Theatre of Scotland, Romeo and Juliet Scottish Ballet, On the Rim of the World Scottish Opera & Citizens Theatre, music/vocals for Fair Friday Citz Community Co, and 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 most recently Addressed the Haggis at Moniack Mhor in December 2023 during a residential writing retreat.