Dr Kirsten Norrie, Faculty of English

kmn47@cam.ac.uk

 

Biographical Information

Dr. Kirsten Norrie (B.F.A Ist Class Hons, M.F.A., AHRC-funded DPhil, Oxon) is the author of novel An American Book of the Dead (Broken Sleep Books, 2024), Scottish Lost Boys: Ten Renegade Essays (Broken Sleep Books, 2025) and Eagle Song: A Spirit Road Trip (Unbound, 2026). She has published several critically acclaimed poetry collections and a pamphlet under her Highland matrilineal name MacGillivray: The Last Wolf of Scotland (Red Hen Press 2013) and The Nine of Diamonds: Surroial Mordantless, (Bloodaxe Books 2016), The Gaelic Garden of the Dead (Bloodaxe Books, 2019), Ravage: An Astonishment of Fire (Bloodaxe Books, 2023), The Demon Tracts (Broken Sleep Books, 2024) and Until the Twilight Fails (Dare-Gale Press, forthcoming 2025/6). Her work has appeared in the Guardian, the TLS, the Scotsman and on BBC Radio 3 Late Junction and the Verb. She was previously an AHRC Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress and a 2019 recipient of a Fondation Jan Michalski writer residency in Switzerland. The MacGillivray archive is held at the Scottish Poetry Library. www.kirstennorrie.com

Research Interests

Scottish Highland mythopoeia, poetry and folklore culture.