Jay Griffiths is the author of non-fiction works including Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape, and Wild: An Elemental Journey and fiction including A Love Letter from a Stray Moon, a short novel about Frida Kahlo.  She won the Discover award for the best new non-fiction writer to be published in the USA. She has also been shortlisted for both the Orwell prize and for a World Book Day award and won the inaugural 2007 Orion Book Award in the USA.  She lives in Wales.