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Leonie Charlton Author

Leonie Charlton travelled extensively as a child, living in England, Africa, Wales and Scotland. She has worked as a cowgirl in Australia, an English teacher in Japan, and has a degree in Hispanic Studies which took her to Catalonia before she settled in Glen Lonan. Her story travelling through the Outer Hebrides with Highland ponies, Marram, was published by Sandstone Press, and Ten Minutes of Weather Away won the Cinnamon Press Poetry Pamphlet Prize. Her work has also appeared in publications such as Northwords Now, Causeway/Cabhsair, The Blue Nib and Dreich. She is currently working on a novel. Her writing follows her fascination with human relationships and is influenced by nature and our connection with the non-human world.