Extra Teeth: Issue Eight Launch

Christina Riley Author

Christina Riley (she/her) is a Florida born, Ayrshire based artist and writer interested in the entanglements of art, science, knowledge and curiosity, with a particular focus on the Atlantic ocean and inshore habitats. She has been published by The Clearing, Caught by the River,Elsewhere, Minding Nature, Gold Flake Paint and others, and her book The Beach Today—a photographic diary of marine objects collected on daily lockdown walks—was published by Guillemot Press. Christina was longlisted for Canongate’s Nan Shepherd Prize for Nature Writing 2019 and later that year started The Nature Library, bringing books about nature and the environment to public spaces across Scotland.
@cmarieriley @christinamriley

Gabrielle Tse Author

Gabrielle Tse is a Hong Kong-born writer of poetry and short stories, currently based in Edinburgh, where she is studying comparative literature. Her creative work has been published in Interpret Magazine, The Hong Kong Review, Outcrop Poetry, and elsewhere.

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.