Dr Helen Scales

Dr Helen Scales is a marine biologist, acclaimed author and broadcaster who explores the wonders and plight of the oceans and the living planet. Her books, including The Brilliant Abyss and Spirals in Time, have been adapted for stage and screen, and translated into 15 languages. She writes for National Geographic Magazine and the Guardian, teaches at Cambridge University and is a storytelling ambassador for the Save Our Seas Foundation. Her latest book What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World’s Ocean has been longlisted for both the Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction and the Women’s Prize for non-fiction. Helen divides her time between Cambridge and the wild Atlantic coast of France. Helen will also teach our three-day travel writing workshop.