The Nature Chronicles Prize is a new biennial literary award celebrating engaging, original, essay-length nature writing. It is endowed by the Prudence Scott Trust, commemorating a lifelong nature diarist who died in 2019.
Nicola Pitchford is a British immigrant living in Marin County, California, where she is President of the Dominican University of California. As well as being a leader, educator and scholar, she has published poetry and literary criticism and studied at Pomona College, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the 2018 Rural Writing Institute.
Jenny Chamarette is a writer and research fellow in Arts and Media at the University of Reading. Her writing has been shortlisted for the Nature Chronicles and Fitzcarraldo essay prizes and longlisted for the Nan Shepherd Prize for underrepresented voices in nature writing.
Laura Coleman is a writer and an artist who lives in the Western Isles of Scotland. She has previously lived and worked in Bolivia, where she worked and cared for rescued wild animals with the NGO Comunidad Inti Wara Yassi for more than a decade. She is also the founder of ONCA, a Brighton-based arts charity that bridges social and environmental justice issues with creativity.
Joanna Pocock is a writer currently living in London, who has been published in the UK, US and Canada, and had her work translated into French and Spanish. She writes for a variety of publications and teaches Creative Writing at the University of the Arts, London.
Neha Sinha is an award-winning conservation biologist, the head of Conservation and Policy at Bombay Natural History Society, BirdLife in India. She was chosen for the Australia-India Youth Dialogue as a 2022 delegate and was awarded by Sanctuary Nature Foundation for her service to wildlife.
