Human/Nature

Jane Rawson is the award-winning author of novels A History of Dreams, From the Wreck and A Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade Lists, a novella, Formaldehyde, and the non-fiction book The Handbook: Surviving & living with climate change. You can read her essays in Living with the Anthropocene; Fire, Flood, Plague; and Reading like an Australian Writer. She has been the Environment & Energy Editor at The Conversation and the Communications Coordinator for the Tasmanian Land Conservancy and is currently the Managing Editor of Island magazine. She is working on a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Tasmania and lives in Southeast Tasmania.

‘In this funny, provocative and profoundly moving book, Jane Rawson brilliantly unravels the myths about the boundaries of the human and the non- human, the natural and the unnatural, and love and death that shape our thinking about not just the environment, but our history and the future that is already overtaking us. Read it: it’s utterly marvellous.’ – James Bradley, author of Deep Water‘Idiosyncratic and wily, big-hearted and brave, Human/Nature is an exhilarating deep dive into what is deemed “nature”, what is worth saving, and who gets to decide. Part confessional, part philosophical inquiry, part lament, this book takes us on a rollicking ride.’ – Jessie Cole, author of Desire and Staying‘A sense of possibility and connection can be elusive in these challenging days yet Jane Rawson offers them to us, using language that is beautiful, wise, clear and true.’ – Sophie Cunningham, author of City of Trees