Melissa Harrison is an author, critic and occasional photographer. Her novels are Clay, At Hawthorn Time and Among the Barley, while her non-fiction book Rain: Four Walks in English Weather was published by Faber & Faber with The National Trust in 2016 and longlisted for the Wainwright Prize.
Melissa has reviewed books for the Guardian, Weekend FT, The Times, and The Telegraph. She won the John Muir Trust’s ‘Wild Writing’ Award in 2010 and was a Writer in Residence at Gladstone’s Library, Hawarden, in January 2014