Victoria MacKenzie Author

Victoria Mackenzie is a fiction writer and poet based in Fife. Her debut novel, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain (Bloomsbury, 2023), explores the lives of the medieval mystics Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe, and was a Guardian Book of the Day and a Times Book of the Month. She has won a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award and the Bridge Award for an Emerging Writer, and has held writing residencies in Scotland, Finland and Australia. Her second novel, Brantwood, about Victorian art critic John Ruskin, will be published by Bloomsbury in 2025.