Mandy Haggith lives on a woodland croft in Assynt, where she works as a freelance researcher and writer. She is passionate about forests and has been working and campaigning for forests and their people for the past decade. She has published a book called Paper Trails, about the impacts of our paper use. Her historical novel The Last Bear was published by Two Ravens Press in 2008.

Between 2003 and 2005, she studied with Tom Leonard at Glasgow University for a creative writing MPhil. She has had two poetry collections published: letting light in (Essencepress, 2005) and Castings (Two Ravens Press, 2007).