Giovanna MacKenna

Giovanna MacKenna is a Scottish poet and workshop facilitator who previously worked as an actor and journalist. She grew up on Scotland's west coast. She is currently Poet in Residence at the Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research in Dundee and is working with South Lanarkshire's Remembering Together Covid Memorial project. Her first collection, How the Heart can Falter, was published by The Museum of Loss and Renewal Publishing. Her work has appeared in Stanza Cannon, Sídhe Press, Black Bough and Nine Pens, and she co-edited the anthology To Light The Trails.