Gifts of Gravity and Light

Anita Roy is a writer, editor and publisher of mixed British and Indian heritage. She spent twenty years living and working in New Delhi, until returning to the UK where she was brought up. Her work has appeared in Granta, Guernica, The Clearing and the Dark Mountain project. She has recently published an acclaimed novel for children and the nature diary A Year at Kingcombe: The Wildflower Meadows of Dorset.

Pippa Marland (Author)

Pippa Marland is an author and academic, based at the University of Bristol. Her research focuses on nature writing, especially the representation of small islands and farming communities. Her creative writing draws on her childhood experiences of living in Ghana, Malta, West Wales, and the South of England, as well as her lifelong islomania. It has appeared in Earthlines, The Clearing, and Women on Nature. Her academic works include the co-edited Walking, Landscape and Environment, the forthcoming co-authored Modern British Nature Writing 1789-2020: Land Lines, and a monograph entitled Ecocriticism and the Island. She is also a musician and songwriter.