Greg Garrard is Reader in Literature and the Environment at Bath Spa University, where he also directs the Writing and Environment Research Centre, and a National Teaching Fellow. He is the author of Ecocriticism (Routledge 2004, 2011 2nd edition) as well as numerous essays on animal studies and environmental criticism, and the editor of Teaching Ecocriticism and Green Cultural Studies (Palgrave 2011) and The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism (forthcoming). He was Chair of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (UK & Ireland) 2004-2011 and is Managing Editor of Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism.
Timothy Morton is Professor of English (Literature and the Environment) at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality (forthcoming from Open Humanities Press), The Ecological Thought (Harvard UP, 2010), Ecology without Nature (Harvard UP, 2007), seven other books and over seventy essays on philosophy, ecology, literature, food and music. He blogs regularly at ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com.
Sally Sales is a psychoanalyst and supervisor in private practice in south east Cornwall and Co-Chair of training for the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis in both London and the South west. She has a longstanding research interest in the formation of working class subjectivities within a dominant and colonising middle class culture. Her most recent publication is Adoption, Family and the Paradox of Origins: A Foucualdian History (Palgrave McMillan 2012).
Ilric Shetland is a psychoanalyst in private practice in SE Cornwall. He is also a visual artist with a long standing interest in the theory and practice of landscape painting. He has been involved with the committee life of the Site for a number of years and currently coordinates the low cost clinic for the SW training.
Joseph Suart has been working psychoanalytically since 1994. He is a member of UKCP and The Site working in rural South West Cornwall
where he lives with his family. His concern is that when we live with disregard for our social and geographical environment our living is intrinsically destructive. He is committed to increasing access to psychotherapy to all sections of society including those on low incomes.
Adrian Tait is a member of the Guild of Psychotherapists, with 25 years' clinical and teaching experience in private, NHS and University settings. He is a Visiting Fellow at The University of the West of England's Centre for Psycho-Social Studies, where he has organised several conferences about the interface of psychoanalysis, other psychological disciplines, climate change and global ecological crisis. He initiated and is a founder member of the Climate Psychology Alliance.
Margot Young practices and teaches psychoanalysis in Cornwall and has recently become involved with the introduction of ecological perspectives into psychoanalytic training at the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. She is interested in the implications of challenges to the notions of nature, the animal and the human for psychoanalytic theories and practices, including for the sustainability of clinical space.
Paul Zeal is a writer and teacher in the areas of psychoanalysis and ecology, including for Resurgence Magazine, and a psychoanalyst in private practice in Somerset.