Brooke William’s life has been one of adventure and wilderness exploration. His conservation career spans forty years. His most recent book is  Encountering Dragonfly, Notes on the Practice of Re-Enchantment. He’s now documenting his quest to know how the planet can make the best use of him. He believes that the length of the past equals the length of the future. He lives near Moab, Utah with the writer, Terry Tempest Williams and two cats, where they watch the light and wait for rain. 

Harry Wels calls himself a ‘multispecies organizational ethnographer’ and is Associate Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the African Studies Centre Leiden at Leiden University and Extra Ordinary professor at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa at the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies. He has this idea that there is no time to waste to keep on studying and reflecting on our multispecies entanglements and share and discuss his thoughts about this with students and colleagues. Many of his reflections are about learning what to unlearn in terms of assumptions, biases, prejudices, convictions, reflexes, impulses, beliefs, habits, lifestyles, manhood, relations, morality, ideas about right and wrong, and what not.

Saskia Stehouwer (Alkmaar, the Netherlands, 1975) studied Dutch and English literature at the University of Amsterdam. Saskia’s first volume of poetry, entitled wachtkamers (waiting rooms) was published by Marmer Publishers in October 2014 and received the prestigious C. Buddingh’-prize for poetry in 2015. Her second book, vrije uitloop (free range) was published in October 2016. In 2019, Saskia published the compostable poetry book bindweefsel (connective tissue) which was handwritten on homemade paper from kitchen scraps and plants. The book can be thrown on the compost heap after reading so that it can return to the cycle of nature. A translation of the book is underway.  Saskia is one of the founders and core members of the Klimaatdichters (Climate poets), a collective of over 250 Dutch and Flemish poets who use their words to raise awareness around climate issues. Her most recent book of poetry is called wonen op de rand van het wonder (living on the edge of the miracle, Marmer 2023). 

Patrick Curry is a writer and scholar living in London. He holds a PhD in the History and Philosophy of Science from University College London and has been a Lecturer at the universities of Kent and Bath Spa. He is the author of Defending Middle-Earth: Tolkien, Myth and Modernity (2004), Ecological Ethics (2017), Enchantment: Wonder in Modern Life (2019) and most recently Art and Enchantment: How Wonder Works (2023).  He is also Editor-in Chief of The Ecological Citizen (http://www.ecologicalcitizen.net/). More information can be found on www.patrickcurry.co.uk.

Erik Jampa Andersson, MA, is an environmental historian, teacher, and the author of Unseen Beings: How We Forgot the World is More Than Human (Hay House UK, 2023). With a twenty-year background in Tibetan studies, his current research focuses on animistic philosophies and the critical intersection of ecology, spirituality, and health in a more-than-human world. His research also extends into the field of Tolkien studies, where he explores critical ecological and animistic themes in J.R.R. Tolkien’s mythopoeic corpus. Erik holds an MA in History from Goldsmiths, University of London, and is a graduate of the Shang Shung Institute School of Tibetan Medicine. 

Philip Carr-Gomm trained in psychotherapy for adults at The Institute of Psychosynthesis, in play therapy for children with Dr Rachel Pinney, and in Sophrology. Philip studied Druidry as a spiritual path with Ross Nichols, the founder of The Order of Bards Ovates and Druids and led the Order until June 2020. Since then, having worked for the Synthesis Institute, he is now involved in the work of the ACER Integration programme and the Sophrology Institute. In recent years he has also pursued his interest in spiritual practices by training to be a teacher of Yoga Nidra and Mindfulness Meditation, and has created an online school, The Art of Living Well, to offer courses that combine psychological and spiritual understanding.

book How Flowers Made our World: Revolutions of Beauty, Cooperation, and Illusion will be published in spring 2026. He is a biologist and writer whose previous books, The Forest Unseen, The Songs of Trees, Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree, and Sounds Wild and Broken have received many awards, including twice being finalists for a Pulitzer Prize. He has also written essays and multimedia projects for Emergence Magazine, The New York Times, and other publications. In 2024, the American Academy of Arts and Letters granted him an Award in Literature. Haskell’s college classes have received national attention for the innovative ways they combine action in the community with contemplative practice. Haskell lives in Atlanta, Georgia. https://dghaskell.com/.

Dr. Jack Hunter is an anthropologist exploring the borderlands of consciousness, religion, ecology and the paranormal. He is an Honorary Research Fellow with the Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, and a tutor at the Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture, University of Wales Trinity Saint David. He teaches on the MA in Ecology and Spirituality and the MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology. He is also a tutor for the Alef Trust on their MSc in Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology, where he teaches on the ‘Approaches to Consciousness’ module. He is the author of Manifesting Spirits (2020), Spirits, Gods and Magic (2020), Ecology and Spirituality (2023), and The Folklore of the Tanat Valley (2025). He is the  editor of Deep Weird (2023), Greening the Paranormal (2019) and Damned Facts (2016), and co-editor of Talking With the Spirits (2014), Mattering the Invisible (2021), Folklore, People and Place (2023) and Sacred Geography (2024). He lives in the hills of Mid-Wales with his family.