ANNA SELBY is a writer, researcher, editor, & naturalist. Her poetry often explores our connection with water & the natural world: she writes poetic-studies of different species in-situ directly from life, often underwater, & aims for these poems to share a sense of compassion & attentiveness to the environment. Her most recent chapbook Field Notes was a Bestseller for two years running with The LRB Bookshop, was featured on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row & Josie Long's Short Cuts, & was an Irish Times Book of the Year. Anna is a Lecturer on the Engaged Ecology Masters at Schumacher College & is doing a Practice Led PhD on Empathy, Ecology, & Plein Air Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is editor of environmental, feminist publisher Hazel Press & was one of the judges for the 2022 Ginkgo Prize (the biggest Eco-Poetry competition in the world). She offers mentoring to environmental writers; collaborates with dancers, choreographers & conservationists; & works on cross-artform, poetry-dance & multi-disciplinary pieces that tour the UK. Previously, Anna has been Writer-in-Residence at Cambridge Conservation Initiative, The Wordsworth Trust, & Wealden Literary festival. // Find out more at: www.annamariaselby.co.uk