Brigid Lowe

Brigid Lowe grew up in a remote Welsh-speaking community with her younger sister and Irish immigrant parents. She now lives with her children in Edinburgh in that part of Scotland known as Yr Hen Ogledd – The Old North – formerly joined with Wales in one Cumbric nation. She studied literature at Bangor, completed a doctorate at Oxford, and went on to teach and research at Sheffield and Cambridge Universities. Brigid traces her descent from travellers, circus performers, mill workers and gallowglass warriors. She takes photographs of flowers, forages her food, clambers pinnacles, and swims in ice and caves and bottomless pools.

Her debut novel, The Bloody Branch, was published by Harvill (PRH) in January 2026. Shiver was a winner of The RSL Giles St Aubyn Award for Non-Fiction 2025, gifted to exceptional first-time writers of non-fiction.