Jay Griffiths is the award-winning author of Wild: An Elemental Journey, Why Rebel and Nemesis, My Friend amongst others. She has written for Radiohead and the RSC and for Mark Rylance in a short film, Almost Invisible Angels. John Berger noted of her: ‘If bravery itself could write, it would write like she does.’ She is a wild skater, whenever the Welsh lakes freeze.