Pauline Herbst is a writer, journalist and anthropologist. She has lived and worked in South Africa, the UK and New Zealand. Her work explores how our lives are entangled with the environment; the health of one affecting the other. She has a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Auckland and is an alumna of Curtis Brown Creative and the Granta Memoir and Nature Writing courses. Her creative non-fiction has been long listed for the Fish Memoir award, and the TravCom Travel Writing Award. She has presented her scholarly work internationally and has previously hosted the podcast Sustain! for Ngā Ara Whetū, Centre for Climate, Biodiversity and Society and Pandemics Reflected for the University of Auckland. She is currently working on two book projects, one a creative non-fiction eco-memoir and the other a children's fantasy novel, under the pen name Pauline English. Pauline is represented by Frances Plumpton.

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