Elizabeth-Jane Burnett

Elizabeth-Jane Burnett is an author and academic whose creative and critical work has a largely environmental focus. Publications include the poetry collections “Of Sea” (Penned in the Margins, 2021) and “Swims” (Penned in the Margins, 2017); 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 “Oh” magazine and “The Guardian”, founder of Grow Your Own Creativity and Associate Professor in Creative Writing at Northumbria University.