Anita Sethi

Anita Sethi is a British journalist and writer.

Sethi was born in Manchester, England.^[1] She has written for The Guardian, The Observer,^[2] The Sunday Times, The Independent, the New Statesman, Granta, and The Times Literary Supplement. In broadcasting, she has appeared as a critic, commentator and presenter on several BBC programmes and is a regular speaker and chair at festivals in the UK and internationally.^[3] She has been published in anthologies including 'The Wild Isles', 'Women on Nature', and 'Way Makers'. She was an International Writer in Residence^[4] at the Emerging Writers' Festival in Melbourne, Australia. She has been a Judge of the Women's Prize for Fiction,^[5] British Book Awards, and Costa Book Awards.

Sethi is the author of the memoir I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain, published in 2021.^[6][7] In 2021, I Belong Here was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize in the Nature Writing category ^[8] and won a Books Are My Bag Award. It was also nominated for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize 2022 for an outstanding work that 'evokes the spirit of a place'.