Kerri ní Dochartaigh

Kerri ní Dochartaigh is a mother, writer, holder and grower. She is moved by the way we tend and attend: to ourselves; to one another; to the living world.

She has written for The Guardian, BBC, RTE, The Irish Times and others.

She mentors and teaches worldwide.

Her work currently explores ideas of one-anotherness, interconnectedness and ecologies of care.

Her first book, Thin Places, was published by Canongate in Spring 2021, for which she was awarded the Butler Literary Award 2022, and highly commended for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing 2021.

Cacophony of Bone was published by Canongate in May 2023 and was longlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing 2023.

She lives in the west of Ireland with her family.

Photo by Paul McCarthy.