Miriam Darlington biography

Miriam Darlington Biography

Miriam Darlington was born and brought up in Lewes, Sussex. She has lived in London, in France, and for five years she lived on St Mary's on the Isles of Scilly. She is now settled with her family in Devon, England. She was a school teacher until she escaped and became a writer in 2008. As well as being a full-time author, she teaches Creative Writing at Plymouth University.

Miriam's first collection of poetry, Windfall, was published in 2008. In 2009 on a fully-funded Creative and Critical PhD at Exeter University she produced Otter Country, In Search of the Wild Otter, a travel and nature memoir. A critical and contextual ecocritical study of nature writing completed her PhD in September 2013.

Owl Sense, a study of the wild owl and the accumulation of mythology around Britain's own owl species, presents a view of owls' ecological reality across Europe. It was serialised by BBC Radio as Book of the Week and was a Sunday Times bestseller. She writes for many newspapers and magazines, as well as her regular column, the Nature Notebook, at The Times.

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