Mandy Haggith

Described by The Scotsman as a ‘backwoods philosopher’, Mandy Haggith is an environmental campaigner and former academic whose writing career has embraced poetry, fiction and non-fiction. Her work is mostly concerned with nature and the arts, and her first novel, The Last Bear, won the Robin Jenkins Literary Award in 2009. She has had two collections of poetry published, Castings and letting light in, and was selected as poet-in-residence for the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in summer 2013 to celebrate Creative Scotland’s Year of Natural Scotland. She has written a well-received non-fiction book on the environmental impact of the paper industry. Mandy’s most recent novel is Bear Witness, a novel on the theme of rewilding published by Saraband in 2013, who are soon to publish Into the Forest, an anthology of Tree Poems.