Tamsin Baird is a British writer and former photo researcher from Cornwall. She studied visual anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and spent much of her twenties cataloging maritime ephemera in archives across Falmouth and Rotterdam. Her essays and reportage have appeared in Port Magazine, The Quietus, and various small-press zines.
Baird is the author of the novels Salt Index and Gull Engine, and the story collection Tide Tables. Her work has been shortlisted for the Portico Prize and the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger. She lives in Glasgow, where she teaches part-time in narrative nonfiction and volunteers with a migrant-support charity.
