Yvonne Reddick is a writer and researcher. Her debut collection Burning Season, published by Bloodaxe, won the Laurel Prize for Best UK First Collection of Ecopoetry and was shortlisted for the Saltire Poetry Book of the Year Award 2023. It was a BBC Radio 4 Poetry Extra Book of the Month for January 2024.
Her pamphlet Translating Mountains (Seren, 2017) won the Mslexia Magazine Pamphlet Competition and was selected as a favourite pamphlet of the year in the Times Literary Supplement. Her work appears in publications such as The Guardian, PN Review and The North. She has received Northern Writers’ Awards for memoir and poetry, a Hawthornden Fellowship and a place on the 2017-18 Jerwood/Arvon mentoring scheme. Her books Ted Hughes: Environmentalist and Ecopoet and Anthropocene Poetry are published by Palgrave Macmillan. With the wildlife filmmaker Aleksander Domanski, she made the film Searching for Snow Hares, shortlisted for the BMC’s Women in Adventure film awards.