Heather Mackay Young is a poet, healer and graduate of The Glasgow School of Art. Her writing has been published by Poet Lore, Hummingbird Press, and Olney Magazine. In 2022 she co-created an exhibition called Alchemy, a collaborative conversation about paint, poetry and place with artist Rebecca Styles. She is the 2023 Anne-Marie Oomen Literary Fellow at Poetry Forge. Heather lives and writes on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland where she works toward the restoration of a land based poetics rooted in the unwritten histories of her ancestors.