Kerri Louise Andrews [1] 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. [2] She was a elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in May 2025. [3]
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. [4] Her thesis title was "Patronage and professionalism in the writings of Hannah More, Charlotte Smith and Ann Yearsley, 1770-1806". [1]
Andrews' book Wanderers: A history of women walking was published in 2020 (Reaktion Books, ISBN 978-1-78914-501-4) 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. [5] [6] [7] 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 (the chapters are in this, chronological, sequence). [8] 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". [9]
Andrews edited the correspondence of Nan Shepherd, a pioneer woman mountain walker, which was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2023. [10] [11]
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". [12] [13]
Her Pathfinding: On Walking, Motherhood and Freedom was published in 2025. [14] 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." [15] As of May 2025 [update] she is working on a project about Isobel Wylie Hutchison (1889-1982), a Scottish Arctic traveller, and writing a book about the history of walking in Scotland. [16]
Andrews has also written for The Guardian [17] [18] and other publications, and has appeared on BBC Radio 4's Costing the Earth , [19] a special edition of Woman's Hour about walking, [20] [16] and BBC Radio Scotland's Scotland Outdoors. [21]
Andrews is married and has two children. She lives in the Scottish borders, and has climbed more than 120 of the 282 Munros. [4] 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. [22]
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