Amanda Read - Presentation 23rd May 2018 - Empathy Group

Amanda Read is a former Bath Spa MA student with a distinction in Creative Writing, and she is also a plant scientist who holds a Royal Horticultural Society Fellowship for Horticultural Taxonomy, studying plant diversity at the University of Reading, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and the Natural History Museum. She works as a programme manager of agricultural research for international development. She says her 'mission' in writing fiction is to enhance the perception of plants so that humans are inspired to act more sensitively towards them.