Anita Sethi was born in Manchester and is an award-winning writer 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. She has also been published in the anthologies Women on Nature edited by Katharine Norbury, The Wild Isles, Common People, Seaside Special: Postcards from the Edge, and We Mark Your Memory among others. She has written columns, features and reviews for newspapers and magazines including the Guardian and Observer, the i paper, Independent, Sunday Times, Telegraph, FT, Sydney Morning Herald, BBC Wildlife, Vogue, New Statesman, Granta, Harpers Bazaar, Times Literary Supplement, Stylist and BBC Travel among others. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and her career highlights include going birdwatching with Margaret Atwood in the UK's oldest nature reserve.
