Elizabeth-Jane Burnett

Elizabeth-Jane Burnett is an author and academic whose creative and critical work has a largely environmental focus. Publications include poetry collections Of Sea (2021) and Swims (2017) from Penned in the Margins, nature writing memoir The Grassling (Penguin, 2019) and monograph A Social Biography of Contemporary Innovative Poetry Communities: The Gift, the Wager and Poethics (Palgrave, 2017). She is a Leverhulme Research Fellow (2021-2), researching Creative Writing and Climate Change: Developing a New Wetlands Literature, a nature diarist for the Guardian and Associate Professor in Creative Writing at Northumbria University. Twelve Words for Moss is forthcoming from Penguin in 2023.