Kevan Manwaring, Editor of the British Fantasy Society Journal, is the MA Creative Writing programme leader at Arts University Bournemouth. He is the author of Writing Ecofiction, Desiring Dragons, The Windsmith Elegy, Ballad Tales, and editor of Heavy Weather. A contributor to Free Thinking on BBC Radio 3 (panels on Vikings, Ursula K. Le Guin, and John Cowper Powys), he was the Academic Consultant for BBC 4's The Secret Life of Books. He is a member of the Climate Fiction Writers League.