Janis Mackay

JANIS MACKAY spent five years in Caithness writing poems and novels inspired by the landscape of the far north of Scotland. In 2009 her first novel for children, Magnus Fin and the Ocean Quest, won the Kelpies Prize and in 2013 she won the Scottish Children’s Book Award with The Accidental Time Traveller. She is a creative writing teacher and also tutors in the subject at Edinburgh University’s Centre for Open Learning. A professional storyteller for over 20 years, she coordinated the Storytelling Forum’s Apprenticeship Scheme. On a Northern Shore was her first novel for adults. The Watchmaker’s Wife, inspired by the life of her grandmother, is her second novel for adults. Janis lives in the Scottish Borders.

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