Dr Anita Sethi is an award-winning writer and critic and author of the acclaimed book I Belong Here: a Journey Along the Backbone of Britain which won a Books Are My Bag award and was nominated for the Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing, the Great Outdoors Award and Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize for writing evoking a strong sense of place. The Sunday Times review wrote: “Punchier and more political than most nature writing, this book is a thing of beauty”.
She has written columns, features and reviews for newspapers and magazines including the Guardian and Observer, Sunday Times, the i paper, Independent, Telegraph, BBC Wildlife, Vogue, New Statesman, Granta, Times Literary Supplement, among others. In broadcasting she has appeared on several BBC radio programmes.
She has been a Judge of the Women’s Prize, British Book Awards, Costa Book Awards, and Society of Authors Awards among others.