jeannie.mackenzie

The salt tang of a Hebridean childhood permeates Jeannie’s creative writing. Published in academia, a novel, a memoir, literary magazines and anthologies, her writing ebbs and flows with the tides of her life as a full-time carer. She teaches creative writing in a community setting and has just completed her second novel – a coming-of-age novel about a selectively mute single mother, surviving the Clydebank blitz of 1941. Her creative non-fiction was shortlisted for The Hope Prize 2025.