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Anna Selby is a writer, researcher, editor and naturalist. 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 and Josie Long's Short Cuts and was an Irish Times Book of the Year. 
 
Anna 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 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 at Manchester Metropolitan University. She offers mentoring to environmental writers, collaborates with dancers, choreographers and conservationists and works on cross-artform, poetry-dance and multi-disciplinary pieces that tour the UK.
 
Anna has been Writer-in-Residence at Cambridge Conservation Initiative, The Wordsworth Trust, and Wealden Literary festival and her poetry often explores our connection with water and the natural world. She 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.