Tanya is a writer and editor who often works in residence. Her 2016/17 project Wild Patience, saw her writing a mile of scroll during a residency Pells Pool in Sussex. It asked those who came close: When did you feel most wild and free? She is a Fellow of Royal Society of Arts.
Tanya is the founder of The Selkie Press, and edited the Wainwright Prize 2019 long-listed Wild Woman Swimming: A Journal of West Country Waters by the late Lynne Roper, which she will be discussing at Between the Tides.