“Out here in the natural world, I find I am connected to something greater than myself. I hear and feel everything, and it is good.”
Mara Menzies is a performance storyteller.
Mara Menzies in conversation with Bashabi Fraser
Talking about drawing on her rich African/Scottish heritage
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Biography
Mara Menzies is a performance storyteller and author, with her debut novel Blood and Gold winning Saltire Society’s Book of Fiction 2022. Her stories have been featured on BBC Radio Scotland and BBC Radio 4, including ‘The Poet and the Echo’.
She has written for the University of Edinburgh, the Mastercard Foundation and for WritersMosaic. She is currently working on her next novel.
