Mandy Haggith

Mandy Haggith is an author, poet, and environmental activist. She was born and brought up in Northumberland. In 1989 she took up an academic post at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. After returning to the United Kingdom, she worked for twenty years as a forest activist. She is the coordinator of Environmental Paper Network International, and was a founding director of Top Left Corner, a community arts organisation. Since 1999 she has lived on a coastal wooded croft in Assynt, in the northwest Highlands of Scotland. She is married to Bill Ritchie, who was secretary of the Assynt Crofters during their purchase of the North Assynt estate in 1993. She is currently a director of the Assynt Foundation.

In 2013, she was poet in residence at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh. She is an honorary research fellow and lecturer in creative writing at the University of the Highlands and Islands.