Anushka Shah is a London-based creative writer, fashion writer, and environmental policy consultant. Put another way, she is a consultant by day, and a writer at all times. She is winner of not-for-profit 26’s Emerging Writer 2024 and won Poet Laureate at her college at Oxford University.

Anushka grew up in Nottinghamshire, surrounded by lots of green. A deep connection to nature and the environment often comes through in her writing; one of her friends once described Pantoscope as “like breathing in a forest” — a description Anushka thought to be hugely flattering but hopes might be somewhat accurate. Anushka’s work is sometimes droll, at other times contemplative, and often evocative. She enjoys exploring philosophical themes such as purpose, intention, and the passage of time. Her work often carries a certain nostalgia and savours time spent with family and friends, recasting these special moments in ways that resonate with others.

Writing, I feel, allows one to savour a moment a little more, preserve it, even share it. It seems hardly revolutionary to think we can harness it to learn from, and with, one another, and empathise at an extraordinary level. Even when we are entirely rinsed out and spun upside down, we still have words. I regularly hang mine up on a clothes line, watch them change colour as they dry.

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