Awards

• Short-listed for Arts Foundation Futures Award for Environmental Writing 2019
• Short-listed for Barry Lopez Creative Nonfiction Prize 2019
• Winner of A Quill & Quire Book of the Year 2019
• Winner of Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize 2019

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A bewitching and deeply affecting book. Pocock’s elegant interweaving of the intimate and the expansive, the personal and the universal, culminates in a work that forces us to consider our own place in, and impact upon, a world that could itself have more past than future. * Spectator * [A] poignant, insightful examination of the American West. * Winnipeg Free Press *

A bewitching and deeply affecting book. Pocock's elegant interweaving of the intimate and the expansive, the personal and the universal, culminates in a work that forces us to consider our own place in, and impact upon, a world that could itself have more past than future. * Spectator * [A] poignant, insightful examination of the American West. * Winnipeg Free Press *

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JOANNA POCOCK is an Irish-Canadian writer living in London, U.K. Her essays, reviews, and travel pieces have appeared in Distinctly Montana, Litro, the Sunday Independent, the Los Angeles Times, the Nation, Orion, Tahoma Literary Review, and 3:AM, and on the Dark Mountain blog. She was a finalist for the 2017 Barry Lopez Narrative Nonfiction Award and the 2021 Arts Foundation Futures Award for Environmental Writing, and she won the 2018 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize for Surrender. She teaches creative writing at the University of the Arts in London and works as a freelance editor for a variety of publishers.

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