Short-story writer and poet Claire Carroll has had her essay ‘Glitter in the wreckage: short fiction, collective grief, and remote connection’ featured in The Lonely Crowd.

In the essay, which you can read in full here, Claire writes about the climate crisis, the difficulty of writing about nature during lockdown, and collective grief.

Claire Carroll is a writer and PhD researcher based in Somerset, UK, who writes about climate anxiety and the intersection of nature, technology and desire. Her short fiction and poetry has been published by Short Fiction Journal, The White Review, perverse magazine, Reflex Fiction, Lunate and others.

Follow Claire on Twitter @C_CRRLL.