About Kerri
I am a creative non-fiction writer, academic and editor based in the Scottish Borders. My first book, Wanderers: A History of Women Walking (Reaktion), is a best-seller and has been translated into multiple languages. My next non-fiction book, Pathfinding: On Walking, Motherhood, and Freedom, a blend of the history of mothering, memoir and nature writing, will be published by Elliott and Thompson in March 2025.
I am also an editor and I pick projects that help to recover voices that have been forgotten or neglected, which have something vital to tell us. I am the editor of the first ever anthology of women’s writing about walking, Way Makers (2023, Reaktion), and my edition of the correspondence of the Scottish nature-writer Nan Shepherd has been longlisted for the Saltire Book Awards Research Book of the Year 2024. My next project will be on the Scottish adventurer and long distance walking phenomenon Isobel Wylie Hutchison.
I have written about walking and chronic illness in Moving Mountains (ed. Louise Kenward), and essays and journalism has appeared in The Guardian, The Great Outdoors, and more. I have appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Costing the Earth and on Woman’s Hour. I am fascinated by women’s history broadly conceived, but especially women’s engagement with the outdoors.
I am currently working on a book about the history of walking in Scotland, which is bringing together all the things I love: the outdoors, Scotland, and women’s history.
I am represented by Kay Peddle at Colwill & Peddle.