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Bio

The Madness of Sara Mansfield is the first in the feminist sci-fi series, The MthR Trilogy. This story explores the intricacies of women’s relationships with technology, the land and each other.

After selling/donating/gifting 95% of my belongings in 2017 I’m now permanently slow-travelling across Europe in a self-converted van with my partner and two rescue-hounds. This continual pilgrimage to the land invites a more nomadic, minimalist way of being into life and art, encouraging the exploration of issues such as land ownership, borders, nationalism, consumerism, environmentalism, belonging, transience, technology, the language of the land, and the poetic imagination.

I’m blogging here: www.sophiemckeand.com/outsider

Award-winning poet, performed poetry at Hay Festival, Kolkata Literature Festival, as well as at events for Caught by the River and Dark Mountain.
Young People’s Laureate Wales 2016-2018.
Commissions include for the Woodland Trust, Erasmus+ 30-year celebrations, BBC Radio Wales and the Wales Millennium Centre, and my work has featured on BBC Radio 3 & 4, as well as TEDx.
Written work in the likes of Dark Mountain, Earthlines, Poetry Wales, Planet Magazine and New Welsh Review.

“Sophie McKeand joined us on stage at The Good Life Experience … where she captivated the audience with her profound, mythological, musical poems that not only crossed borders but seemed to dismantle them entirely, collapsing time and space and merging visions of the past with narratives of the personal.”
- Caught By The River

“Sophie McKeand's Rebel Sun is no dying star, but a fiery tour de force, full of surreal and ingenious imagery. [...] a passionate and heartfelt book, a collection of modern agitprop poetry in which Marxism and landscape rub easy shoulders, and the Rebel Sun acts as an agitator, its manifesto calling for a reconnection with the natural world [...] Accomplished and vibrant, this is a collection to cherish.”
- Kathy Miles, Planet Magazine

www.SophieMcKeand.com