Jenny Lindsay

Jenny Lindsay is a Scottish poet, performer, and promoter.

Career Lindsay started writing poetry in 2002 at the age of 20. Her first full poetry collection to be published was "The Things You Leave Behind," which Red Squirrel Press published in 2011. She was BBC Slam Champion in 2012. Following this debut, she released pamphlet-length collections, "The Eejit Pit" in 2012 and "Ire & Salt" in 2015.

Lindsay worked as a modern studies schoolteacher in Edinburgh until 2014, when she became a full time writer, mentor, and events organiser.

In 2020, Lindsay won the John Byrne Award for Critical Thinking for her film-poem ‘The Imagined We’.

Works

Poetry collections The Things You Leave Behind (Red Squirrel Press, 2011); This Script (Stewed Rhubarb Press, 2019) This Script (re-release) (Red Squirrel Press, 2022)

Poetry pamphlets The Eejit Pit (Stewed Rhubarb Press, 2012) Ire & Salt (Polity Press, 2024)

Personal life

Jenny Lindsay is from Ayrshire. She lived in Edinburgh, having moved there for university at 17, before returning to Ayrshire in 2020.

Lindsay has spoken publicly about her experiences of being stalked