Cal Flyn

Cal Flyn is an award-winning writer from the Highlands of Scotland.

Her latest book The Savage Landscape won the 2026 Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing. She is the author of two previous books, Thicker Than Water and Islands of Abandonment, which was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize. Cal was named 2022 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year and is deputy editor of the literary recommendations site Five Books.

She has written for publications including The Guardian, Granta, National Geographic, and The Wall Street Journal. Cal is a fellow of MacDowell and Yaddo, has been a writer in residence at Gladstone’s Library and at the Jan Michalski Foundation in Switzerland. She was the winner of the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the John Burroughs Medal and has also been a finalist for the British Academy Book Prize and the Ondaatje Prize.

She has acted as Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Wesleyan University. She lives in Glasgow.