Feisty and Fiery and Fierce: Badass Women to Live Your Life by from the Celtic Nations of Scotland, Ireland and Wales

About Mairi Kidd

MAIRI KIDD is the author of We are All Witches Warriors and Witches and Damn Rebel Bitches and Feisty and Fiery and Fierce as well as a number of books for children and drama for TV radio and stage. She has a passion for exploring untold stories and particularly women's lives in history. Mairi is Director of the Saltire Society and has been Head of Literature at Creative Scotland and CEO of Seven Stories the National Centre for Children's Books. She has also been a publisher working to open up the written word to children and young people with dyslexia when she had the honour of publishing household names including Julia Donaldson Michael Morpurgo Michael Rosen and Quentin Blake. Mairi is a Gaelic speaker and regularly appears on TV and radio discussing books. She lives in Portobello with her husband Tom an illustrator and their very handsome cat.