Linden McMahon

Hello! I’m Linden, my pronouns are they/them. I’m a writer, performer, and participatory arts and nature connection facilitator – you might find me co-producing arts projects with young people and communities, running creative writing programmes, or facilitating workshops in the woods.

I graduated from the MA in Creative Writing and Education at Goldsmiths, University of London, in 2018, and I trained in Nature Connection Facilitation with Change in Nature in 2019; I am currently training in Forest School Leadership with FSTC. From 2019-2023, I worked at Ministry of Stories in London, running creative writing after school clubs for 8-15 year olds.

I write poetry and fiction exploring connections between humans and the rest of nature, re-imagining belonging and kinship, and celebrating queer joy and liberation. I wrote and toured a full-length spoken word show about fat liberation and reclaiming exercise, Fat Kid Running, in 2016-18. My latest book of ecopoems, All the plants I have half-grown, is published by Stewed Rhubarb Press.

I’ve run participatory arts projects and taught creative writing in schools, with older people, in mental health contexts, in a children’s hospital, in queer spaces, with community gardens, in a cemetery park, and more.