About Wendy Pratt

My name is Wendy Pratt. I’m an author, poet and editor living on the North Yorkshire coast.

For the last few years I’ve been working on my nature/landscape memoir The Ghost Lake, a memoir that was long listed for the Nan Shepherd prize in 2021. The Ghost Lake is inspired by paleolake Flixton, an extinct lake in North Yorkshire. It has been described as a “deeply personal, lyrical and stirring” meditation on local history and changing landscapes, combining nature writing with memoir, and an exploration of grief and belonging.

I write about nature as refuge, and how belonging to landscape gives you a place to connect to your ancestors, even if those ancestors are only joined to you through the land you walk on.

The Ghost Lake was published by The Borough Press in 2024.

I am also a poet, the author of six poetry collections. My latest collection, Blackbird Singing at Dusk is published by Nine Arches Press on 28th November 2024. My previous collection, When I Think of My Body as a Horse won the Poetry Business International Book and Pamphlet Competition 2020).

As well as being an author I am a mentor and workshop facilitator.

You can work with me one to one, or join my substack writing community for online writing courses.

I am available for commissions and for facilitating.