Nicola Chester
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Nicola Chester

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Nicola has been 'nature writing' for around twenty years. She was one of a very small handful of female writers beginning to make their voices heard, writing about nature and the environment: what it means to us and why; and how we should protect it. Winning the BBC Wildlife Magazine Nature Writer of the Year Award in 2003, she became one of the forerunners of 'the new nature writing.' Nicola is the longest running female columnist for the RSPB members magazine, Nature's Home (formerly Birds). She is a Guardian Country Diarist and her work appears in several anthologies, including the Seasons Books (ed., Melissa Harrison) Red 67 (ed., Kit Jewitt) and Women On Nature (ed Katharine Norbury). She and her family are tenants in an estate workers cottage at the heart of the glorious North Wessex Downs, and her memoir, On Gallows Down, Place, Protest and Belonging, is set below the hill that is her muse. Nicola aims to engage, move and reconnect people with their wildlife in the hope they will then care enough to help stem its catastrophic loss. When she is not writing, or working as a Secondary School Librarian in Hungerford, she is often found perched outside a badger sett or up on the high chalk, watching the birds. She writes, reads, campaigns, and finds joy in nature, in order to live!
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