Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books, including the forthcoming book Orwell’s Roses, which explores Orwell’s involvement with plants, particularly flowers, and how they illuminated his other commitments as a writer and antifascist, and the intertwined politics of nature and power. Her memoir, Recollections of My Non-Existence, was longlisted for the 2021 Orwell Prize for Political Writing and shortlisted for the 2021 James Tait Black Award. She is also the author of The Faraway Nearby, Wanderlust, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, A Paradise Built in Hell, Men Explain Things to Me and many essays on feminism, activism, social change, hope and the climate crisis. A contributing editor to Harper's, she writes regularly for the Guardian, the London Review of Books and the Los Angeles Times. She lives in San Francisco.