Kerri Andrews
Kerri Louise Andrews is a non-fiction writer and editor specialising in women's experiences of walking. She is a former reader in women's literature and textual editing at Edge Hill University. She was a elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in May 2025.
Early life and education
Andrews is from Worcestershire and moved to Scotland in the 2010s. She has an undergraduate degree from Loughborough University and a master's and doctorate from the University of Leeds. Her thesis title was "Patronage and professionalism in the writings of Hannah More, Charlotte Smith and Ann Yearsley, 1770-1806".Writings
Andrews' book Wanderers: A history of women walking was published in 2020 and discusses ten women writers who walked, and wrote about their walking, from the 18th to the 21st centuries; it has a foreword by poet Kathleen Jamie. The subjects of Wanderers are: Elizabeth Carter, Dorothy Wordsworth, Ellen Weeton, Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, Harriet Martineau, Virginia Woolf, Nan Shepherd, Anaïs Nin, Cheryl Strayed and Linda Cracknell. Andrews chose writers who "actively reflected on their pedestrianism, or who found in their walking something that contributed to their understanding of themselves as authors and as people".Andrews edited the correspondence of Nan Shepherd, a pioneer woman mountain walker, which was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2023.
Her anthology Way Makers: An Anthology of Women's Writing about Walking, was published in 2023 and is the first anthology of this kind. The earliest piece is a letter from Elizabeth Carter in 1746, recording that "My general practice about six is to take up my stick and walk".
Her Pathfinding: On Walking, Motherhood and Freedom was published in 2025. The reviewer for The Great Outdoors Magazine concluded that "If you feel like you've lost your way, amid the mountain narrative, Pathfinding may help you to place yourself once again." she is working on a project about Isobel Wylie Hutchison, a Scottish Arctic traveller, and writing a book about the history of walking in Scotland.
Andrews has also written for The Guardian and other publications, and has appeared on BBC Radio 4's Costing the Earth, a special edition of Woman's Hour about walking, and BBC Radio Scotland's Scotland Outdoors.
Personal life
Andrews is married and has two children. She lives in the Scottish borders, and has climbed more than 120 of the 282 Munros. She has haemochromatosis, a chronic condition which leads to an excess of iron in the body, which was only diagnosed after she had repeatedly been told that there was nothing wrong with her.Selected publications
On walking
Books
Chapters and articles
Other works
Books
Chapters and articles