Lamorna Ash is a writer, journalist and editor at Weatherglass Books. Her first book, Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town, was shortlisted for the Wainwright Nature Writing Prize in 2020, and won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2021. The book was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. As a journalist, she writes for the Guardian, Times Literary Supplement, Times, New Left Review’s Sidecar, Literary Review and the Telegraph. She is also a New Statesman columnist. Her second book, an investigation into Christianity in Britain today, will be coming out with Bloomsbury in 2025.