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Represented By: Sharmaine Lovegrove
She has a regular column for the celebrated online arts and culture journal Caught By The River.
She was writer in residence for UNESCO’s Exeter Quay Words in 2025. She has had essays published online and in print by various outlets including publishers Little Toller, and Elliot & Thompson. She reviews music for The Quietus and has worked in sound with Resonance FM and the BBC.
Kirsteen is also an events curator who works filmmakers, musicians and artists on special one-off events remote places ranging from Epping Forest, The RIBA, The Minack Theatre, and within the hills and tors of Dartmoor.
She has co-curated and contributed to a number of panel events, most recently with The Wellcome Collection, and Dartmoor Preservation Association. Kirsteen also developed the story around an album called “Mirry” which was about the secret life and lost music of a female composer. Kirsteen lives in Devon.
Represented By: Sharmaine Lovegrove
She has a regular column for the celebrated online arts and culture journal Caught By The River.
She was writer in residence for UNESCO’s Exeter Quay Words in 2025. She has had essays published online and in print by various outlets including publishers Little Toller, and Elliot & Thompson. She reviews music for The Quietus and has worked in sound with Resonance FM and the BBC.
Kirsteen is also an events curator who works filmmakers, musicians and artists on special one-off events remote places ranging from Epping Forest, The RIBA, The Minack Theatre, and within the hills and tors of Dartmoor.
She has co-curated and contributed to a number of panel events, most recently with The Wellcome Collection, and Dartmoor Preservation Association. Kirsteen also developed the story around an album called “Mirry” which was about the secret life and lost music of a female composer. Kirsteen lives in Devon.
Author: Kirsteen McNish
Genres: Memoir/ Nature Writing
Pulled by the currents of water and memory, DIVINER traces a life shaped by landscapes, inheritance, and the quiet act of paying attention.
Structured in three movements—Source, Rivers and Tributaries, and Sea—the book follows Kirsteen McNish’s return to places that have marked her inner and outer worlds. As personal history intertwines with community, ecology, and deep time, familiar terrains become sites of excavation, revealing lesser-heard stories and new ways of understanding care, belonging, and continuity.
Meditative yet searching, DIVINER explores what it means to look closely, to listen differently, and to find meaning not in resolution, but in movement.
For readers of Lucy Jones and Kathleen Jamie, drawn to writing where landscape, memory, and interior life converge.