Dave Reeve: Your work feels woven across myth, ecology, grief, hope, wonder and the body. How would you describe the thread that runs through it all?

Sophie Strand: Lately I’ve been saying that I’m a writer at the intersection of storytelling, ecology and myth or animism – but it’s more accurate to call me a lover. Lover as related to the word ‘amateur’. Never an expert, always following foolishly and naively. My passion is like a bee following its desire into a flower and incidentally pollinating other plants.

I follow my love, my desires, my inclinations. I’m always in mentorship to the more-than-human ...

 

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