Daisy Hildyard is an author based in the north of England. Her most narrative non-fiction book, The Second Body (2017), is an essay on how the porous boundaries of the Anthropocene are shaping human experiences. Her first novel, Hunters in the Snow (2014), won a Somerset Maugham Award at the Society of Authors (UK), and a ‘5 Under 35’ honorarium at the National Book Awards (USA). Her new novel, Emergency (2022), tells stories of global connections and human-nonhuman relationships within a small rural area.