Kristie De Garis is a mixed-race, chronically ill, neurodivergent writer, photographer, and drystone waller based in rural Perthshire, Scotland. Her debut memoir, Drystone – A Life Rebuilt (Birlinn, 2025), explores coming apart and putting yourself back together, using the ancient craft of drystone walling as both the means and the metaphor. She is currently working on her second book, a work of literary nonfiction. 

Kristie has written for the Times Magazine, Caught By The River, The Scotsman and has been featured in The Bookseller and Smithsonian Magazine. 

When she’s not writing, she builds drystone walls, shoots film and digital photography, and bothers stones all over Scotland.