Anna Selby

Anna Selby is a writer and naturalist. Her chapbook Field Notes was a bestseller for two years running with the LRB Bookshop, was featured on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row and was an Irish Times Book of the Year. She is a Lecturer on the Engaged Ecology Masters at Schumacher College and was one of the judges for the 2022 Ginkgo Prize, the biggest Ecopoetry prize in the world; is editor of environmental, feminist publisher, Hazel Press and is doing a practice-led PhD on Empathy, Ecology and Plein Air Poetry. She offers mentoring to environmental writers, collaborates with dancers, choreographers and conservationists and works on cross-artform, poetry-dance and multi-disciplinary pieces. Anna writes poetic-studies of different species in-situ, directly from life, often underwater, and aims for these poems to share a sense of compassion and attentiveness to the environment.