Mandy Haggith

Mandy Haggith is an author, poet, and environmental activist. She was born and brought in Northumberland. She has spent twenty years as a forest activist.[1] 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.[2]

In 2013, she was poet in residence at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh. She is an honorary research fellow and lecturer in creative writing at the University of the Highlands and Islands.[1]

Education

Mandy Haggith has a master's degree in creative writing (with distinction) from Glasgow University.[3] Her doctoral research concerned points of disagreement, such as in environmental issues.[4]

Since 1999 she has lived on a coastal wooded croft in Assynt, in the northwest Highlands of Scotland.[5]

Bibliography

Novels
  • The Last Bear (2008)[6]
  • Bear Witness (2013)[7]
The Stone Stories trilogy
  • The Walrus Mutterer (2018)[8]
  • The Amber Seeker (2019)
  • The Lyre Dancers (2020)
Poetry
  • letting light in (2005)[9]
  • Castings (2007)[9]
  • A-B Tree (2016)[10]
  • Into the forest (editor) (2013)[11]
Non-fiction
  • Paper Trails (2008)[12]
  • The Lost Elms (2025)

References

  1. ^ a b Haggith. Mandy (2025), The Lost Elms: A Love Letter to Our Vanished Trees - and the Fight to Save Them, Wildfire, London, pp. 1 - 5, 27 & flyleaf ISBN 9781035412327
  2. ^ "Mandy Haggith - Biography". www.mandyhaggith.net.
  3. ^ "University of Glasgow - University news - Archive of news - 2007 - December - Glasgow poets recognised for Best Scottish Poems". www.gla.ac.uk.
  4. ^ "Mandy Haggith". 6 May 2019.
  5. ^ "Mandy Haggith - Poetry - Scottish Poetry Library". www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk.
  6. ^ "The Last Bear by Mandy Haggith". Vulpes Libris. 18 April 2008. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
  7. ^ Crockett, Mary. "Book review: Bear Witness by Mandy Haggith". The Scotsman. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
  8. ^ "The Walrus Mutterer - Saraband".
  9. ^ a b Haggith, Mandy. "letting light in". Mandyhaggith.net. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
  10. ^ "Mandy Haggith - A-B-Tree Poems". www.mandyhaggith.net.
  11. ^ "Into the Forest by Mandy Haggith - Waterstones". www.waterstones.com.
  12. ^ "Review: Paper Trails by Mandy Haggith". 22 August 2008 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
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