Mandy Haggith is an author, poet, and

environmental activist The environmental movement (sometimes referred to as the ecology movement), also including conservation and green politics, is a diverse philosophical, social, and political movement for addressing environmental issues. Environmentalists advoc ...

. She is the coordinator of Environmental Paper Network International, and was a founding director of Top Left Corner, a community arts organisation. She is currently a director of the Assynt Foundation.

Education

Mandy Haggith has a master's degree in creative writing (with distinction) from Glasgow University. Her doctoral research concerned points of disagreement, such as in

environmental issue Environmental issues are effects of human activity on the biophysical environment, most often of which are harmful effects that cause environmental degradation. Environmental protection is the practice of protecting the natural environment on th ...

s. Since 1999 she has lived on a coastal wooded croft in Assynt, in the northwest

highlands of Scotland The Highlands ( sco, the Hielands; gd, a’ Ghàidhealtachd , 'the place of the Gaels') is a historical region of Scotland. Culturally, the Highlands and the Lowlands diverged from the Late Middle Ages into the modern period, when Lowland Sco ...

Bibliography

;Novels: :*''The Last Bear'' (2008) :*''Bear Witness'' (2013) :;The Stone Stories trilogy: :*''The Walrus Mutterer'' (2018) :*''The Amber Seeker'' (2019) :*''The Lyre Dancers'' (2020) ;Poetry: :*''letting light in'' (2005) :*''Castings'' (2007) :*''A-B Tree'' (2016) :*''Into the forest'' (editor) (2013) ;Non-fiction: :*''Paper Trails'' (2008)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Haggith, Mandy Writers from Northumberland British women activists English environmentalists 21st-century English women writers English women novelists English women poets Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Alumni of the University of Glasgow