Rebecca Hawkes is a poet and painter from a farm near Methven. Her first book, Meat Lovers, won Best First International Collection in the UK poetry laureate's eco-poetry award the Laurel Prize in 2022, and is a finalist for bisexual poetry in the US-based Lambda Literary Awards. She edits the online journal Sweet Mammalian and co-edited the 2022 anthology of climate poetry No Other Place To Stand.

Photo credit: Ebony Lamb Photography