Blue Extinction in Literature, Art, and Culture

About

Dr. Vera Fibisan is an Honorary Researcher at University of Sheffield UK. She is a practice-based researcher and writer focusing on bodies of water and marginalia. She has published poetry notably in The Sheffield Anthology (Smith/Doorstop 2012) CAST: The Poetry Business Book of New Contemporary Poets (Smith/Doorstop 2014) the Wretched Strangers Anthology (Boiler House Press 2018) and Voices for Change (2020). She is ASLE-UKI Website and Social Media Officer and Podcast Co-host of Green Listening: Discussions in Ecocriticism. Rachel Murray is Lecturer in Literature and the Environment at University of Bristol UK. She specializes in twentieth-century literature animal studies and the environment. She is the author of The Modernist Exoskeleton: Insects War Literary Form (2020) and is the editor (with Caroline Hovanec) of Reading Modernism in the Sixth Extinction for Modernism/modernity. She has published articles in the Journal of Modern Literature Humanities and the Journal of Literature and Science among other venues. She is currently writing a book about marine life in modern and contemporary poetry provisionally entitled Marine Attachments.