David Borthwick teaches Environmental Humanities at the University of Glasgow's School of Interdisciplinary Studies. Previous publications have centred on ecopoetry, walking and cultural understandings of avian migration. He has also published poetry and non-fiction. His current research uses poetry and non-fiction to examine the depictions of the multivalent nature of place - and the future of place-based thinking.

Anna Stenningis a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Bath Spa University. She has written about nature writing, poetry and disability studies, and she has published both her own poetry and creative non-fiction. Her current research focuses on representations of autistic flourishing, narrativity and eco-anxiety, and she is the author ofNature, Place and Affect: The Poetic Affinities of Edward Thomas and Robert Frost 1912-1917for Rowman & Littlefield International. She is also a co-editor, with Nick Chown and Hanna Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist, of Routledge's interdisciplinary collectionNeurodiversity: A New Critical Paradigm.

Pippa Marlandis a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow based at the University of Leeds, where she is a member of the Environmental Humanities Research Group. Her research project is a study of the representation of farming in modern British nature writing. She has published widely on ecocriticism, ecopoetry and nature writing, and is currently preparing a monograph for publication entitledEcocriticism and the Island: Readings from the British-Irish Archipelagofor the Rowman & LittlefieldRethinking the Islandseries.