Hannah Boyle is a writer and editor based in Glasgow.

“I believe that the world needs more positive and beautiful images of Iran, a country too often portrayed in a questionable way.”

A retrospective piece on growing up queer and Catholic for April’s issue of The Skinny. Illustration by Katie Smith.

“I wanted to crawl in the reeds and the grasses and the flowers and the plants.”

“The coffee is wearing me down, and I’m tired everyday.”

“For me, Islands is about a convergence of space and time, being in two places at once, and still feeling the ongoing tug from both.”

“...While gentleness, softness is in my nature, I’m also teasing, obnoxious, tenacious.”