Maggie Harris

Maggie Harris is Winner of the Guyana Prize for Literature, Regional Winner of The Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2014 and the Wales Poetry Award 2020. She has worked as Creative Writing tutor, Reader Development Worker and International Teaching Fellow and in collaboration with artists across genres since 1990. In 2024 she was awarded a DYCP (Developing your creative potential, Arts Council England) grant towards re-visiting Guyana and its rainforests, following the discovery of oil. She is published in journals including Poetry Wales, Wasafiri, Magma, The Caribbean Writer and Seaside Gothic. Her poem ‘Canterbury’ is an Art installation in the city’s Westgate Gardens, and her poem, ‘Lit by Fire’ on the North Foreland Lighthouse, was commissioned by the BBC. She has read her work internationally including in the Caribbean, Ireland and India. Recent collaborations with artists in the US have put her poems to music: her poem, ‘This is Not a Gospel Song’ is on Youtube. In 2024 she was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund and runs a weekly Reading Group in Kent. Her eleventh book I Sing to the Greenhearts was published in February 2025.