The Bee Is Not Afraid Of Me: Poems About Insects

Author Biography

Fran Long is a primary science specialist teacher and fellow of the Primary Science Teaching Trust. She was HLF Education Officer on the Oxford University Museum of Natural History's HOPE for the Future project. Isabel Galleymore is an award-winning writer and lecturer at the University of Birmingham. Her poems, which explore ecology and our human place within it, have been published in a number of magazines in the UK and US, and her first collection, Significant Other, was published by Carcanet in 2019 and won the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2020. In 2016, Isabel’s curiosity for animals took her to the Amazon rainforest where she spent a month as a poet- in-residence and encountered howler monkeys, caiman, pink-toed tarantulas and lots and lots of mosquitos. Her pamphlet, Cyanic Pollens, published by Guillemot Press in 2020 is based on her experiences in the jungle. Emma Dai'an Wright is a British-Chinese-Vietnamese publisher and illustrator. She worked in ebook production at Orion Publishing Group before leaving in 2012 to set up The Emma Press with the support of the Prince's Trust. She has since published over 500 writers across more than 130 books, including poetry anthologies for adults and children, short stories, and translations. She lives in Birmingham.