Nicola Chester is the award-winning author of On Gallows Down, as well as a Guardian Country Diarist and columnist for the RSPB and BBC Countryfile Magazine.
An ‘imperfect activist’ for community, climate and nature, she also writes about rural matters, and her work appears in several other publications and anthologies.
Nicola is one of the judges of the inaugural Climate Fiction Prize, 2025 and a former School Librarian.
She is a long-term tenant in a farmworkers’ cottage in the North Wessex Downs and her new book, Ghosts of the Farm, is due out Autumn 2025.
