Kirsten MacQuarrie Author

Kirsten MacQuarrie is a Scottish artist and writer, whose writing has been published by New Writing Scotland, the Scottish Poetry Library, Gutter Magazine, Scottish PEN, Glasgow Women’s Library, the Federation of Writers Scotland, Edinburgh Literary Salon, and others.

Kirsten has been shortlisted for a Vogue Magazine Young Talent Award, selected as an Editor’s Choice for the John Byrne Award, and twice winner of the Glasgow Women’s Library Poetry Prize. Her story ‘The Wordsworth Women’ won second prize in the Federation of Writers Scotland Vernal Equinox 2020. She has also served twice as a Non-Fiction judge for Scotland’s National Book Awards.