Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is the author of Harmless Like You and Starling Days. She has won a Betty Trask Award and been short-listed for the Costa Novel Award. Jessica J. Lee is the author of two books of nature writing: Turning (2017) and Two Trees Make a Forest (2019), which was winner of the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction and the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature.