Grief, Hope, and Climate: A Conversation with Liz Jensen

Arts & Ecology is a brand new podcast about the vital role art and culture play in creating a regenerative future.

This week, we speak with writer Liz Jensen. Liz is the author of eight novels including the eco-thrillers The Rapture and The Uninvited. She is a founder member of Extinction Rebellion’s Writers Rebel, a literary movement using words and actions to highlight the climate and ecological emergency. Her work has been short-listed for the Guardian Fiction Award, nominated three times for the Women’s Fiction prize, adapted for film, theatre and radio, and translated into twenty languages.

We talk to Liz about how our attitudes to climate change has changed since she wrote The Rapture, her conflicts and ideas around hope, what writers can do to respond to the ecological crisis, and her latest book about grief

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