Should We Have Stayed At Home?

Jason Allen-Paisant is a Jamaican poet and non-fiction writer based in the UK. He is the author of Thinking with Trees, and of the forthcoming memoir Primitive Child: On Blackness, Landscape and Reclaiming Time.

Taran N. Khan is a journalist and writer based in Mumbai. She is the author of Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul.

Ben Mauk lives in Berlin, where he directs the Berlin Writers’ Workshop. He writes for the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker and Harper’s, among other publications. He is writing a book for Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Bathsheba Demuth is an Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University, and the author of Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait, which has won a number of prizes. Her writing has appeared in publications ranging from the American Historical Review to the New Yorker.

William Atkins's first book, The Moor, was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize and his second, The Immeasurable World: A Desert Journey, won the Stanford Dolman Travel Writing Award and the British Library Eccles Prize. He is a guest editor of the travel-writing edition of Granta. His journalism and reviews have appeared in Guardian, the New York Times, and Harper’s. Exiles: Three Island Journeys is published by Faber in 2022. He lives in Suffolk.