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Giovanna’s first collection, How the Heart can Falter, is available
from The Museum of Loss and Renewal Publishing
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Giovanna MacKenna was an actor, and a journalist, and is now a poet and creative facilitator. 
Her poem Silenced by My Mother’s Tongue has recently been included in the Scottish Poetry Library’s Best Scottish Poems list. Giovanna is currently Poet in Residence at the Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research and is also working with Scotland’s Remembering Together Covid Memorial project. You can find current work in Sídhe Press, Stanza Cannon, Black Bough and Nine Pens. Giovanna’s first collection is available from The Museum of Loss and Renewal Publishing. 
For more follow her on Instagram @giovmacpoet and Facebook at Giovanna MacKenna.