Samantha Walton is a writer, editor and researcher at Bath Spa University, interested in the relationship between literature, nature and wellbeing. Her most recent book, Everybody Needs Beauty: In Search of the Nature Cure (Bloomsbury 2021) blends nature writing with cultural history to explore the origins and future of ‘healing nature’. She has also written a study of the Scottish nature writer, Nan Shepherd – The Living World: Nan Shepherd and Environmental Thought (Bloomsbury 2020) – and published her debut collection of poetry, Self Heal, in 2018.