Kevan Manwaring is the MA Creative Writing Course Leader at Arts University Bournemouth, UK. He is the author of Desiring Dragons: creativity, imagination, and the writer's quest, contributor to Storytelling for Nature Connection, and Coastal Environments in Popular Song, and editor of Heavy Weather: tempestuous tales of stranger climes. He has contributed articles to Writing in Practice, New Writing, TEXT, Axon, English Review, Revenant and Gothic Nature. He was an academic consultant for BBC 4's The Secret Life of Books, and is a panellist on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking. He is also a member of the Climate Fiction Writers League.