Carrie Marshall

Carrie Marshall is a writer, musician and parent from Glasgow. Her latest book, Small Town Joy: How LGBTQ+ Music Changed the Sound of Scotland, was published in the spring of 2025. Her memoir about coming out as a trans woman, Carrie Kills A Man, was published in 2022 and was picked as a Scotsman book of the year and Damian Barr’s book of the week; it was also shortlisted in the 2023 British Book Awards. She has contributed to two anthologies of LGBTQ+ writing – Twenty-Eight: Stories from the Section 28 Generation (2023) and Fierce Salvage: A Queer Words Anthology (2025) – and has written, co-written or ghost-written over 20 books about technology and music.

Carrie has appeared at festivals including the Edinburgh Book Festival, the Boswell Book Festival, the Paisley Book Festival and the Wigtown Book Festival, and also appears often on radio and podcasts.