Short bio
Kirsteen Bell is a Scottish writer of narrative non-fiction and sometimes poetry. All her words are gathered from the croft in Lochaber where she lives, and the surrounding Scottish Highlands. Her writing and reviews can be found in such places as Paperboats, Caught by the River, The Guardian Country Diary, Gutter, and Northern Scotland Journal.
Long bio
Kirsteen Bell is a Scottish writer of narrative non-fiction and sometimes poetry. All her words are gathered from the croft in Lochaber where she lives, and the surrounding Scottish Highlands.
She writes a bimonthly column for Caught by the River with Annie Worsley, entitled ‘Croft, Coast and Hill: Letters from the Northwest Highlands’. From 2020-2025 she wrote a regular Wild Words column for The Lochaber Times. Her writing and reviews can also be found in Paperboats, Caught by the River, The Guardian Country Diary, Gutter, Northwords Now, Northern Scotland Journal, Imagined Spaces, The Nature Library, The Selkie Anthology: The Same Havoc, Stravaig: Journal of the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics, and The Oban Times.
Kirsteen has a BAH Literature from the University of the Highlands & Islands (UHI) and an MSc Sustainability and Rural Regeneration, also from UHI. Her work has been shortlisted for the Fresher Writing Prize for Poetry, and in 2020 she received the Katharine Stewart Award from Moniack Mhor, Scotland’s Creative Writing Centre.
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