Annie with Dram and Harris at Red River Croft

Annie Worsley is a writer, geographer, grandmother and crofter who lives in North West Scotland.

A physical geographer with particular interests in spatial and temporal relationships between people, landscape and the natural world, Annie’s doctoral research in the New Guinea Highlands in 1979 examined the environmental history of montane rainforests and human impacts upon landscapes. Her experiences there were completely life-changing and lead to a passionate love for nature and wild places.

After a career break raising her four children, Annie returned to full-time academic life in 1999. She investigated long-term environmental change in the peat bogs, hills and coasts of North West England, and the spatial and temporal history of pollution and its effects on human health in urban environments. Annie was awarded a Personal Chair in Environmental Change by Edge Hill University. She left full-time academia in 2011.

Annie now writes for Elementum Journal and her essays have been published by Elliot & Thompson in the Seasons anthologies edited by Melissa Harrison, and in Women on Nature, edited by Katharine Norbury. Her first book, Windswept, was published by William Collins in 2023.

She regularly posts on her Red River Croft blog, Notes from a Small Croft by the Sea.