Maggie Harris is a poet, prose writer, and visual artist. Originally from Guyana, South America, she recently re-located to Kent after 10 years in Wales. She attended Kent University as a mature student, achieving a BA and MA, and started her career performing, running workshops and teaching creative writing.
She has worked for Kent Arts & Libraries, represented Kent in Europe and was International Teaching Fellow at Southampton University.
A guitar, once a father’s prized possession, provides a physical manifestation of a family’s journey and loss and of his creative inspiration.
17th March 2026
Maggie Harris: 'And my mum shakes her head and [says], ‘Margaret, I don't know where you get these ideas from, girl.’ And I don't know. So I think that's just a gift.'
In conversation with Michael McMillan
20th December 2023
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"Being a writer means you constantly enquire. All those who have enquired of me did me a great service as it sent me on an enquiry of my own, which is present in every poem, every tale, every story handed down to my children."
Maggie Harris is a poet, prose writer and visual artist.
