Emma Must is Belfast based environmental activist, poet and academic researcher. Her poem, Toll, won the Environmental Defenders Prize in the 2019 Ginkgo Prize, and is included in, Out of Time: Poetry From the Climate Emergency, (Valley Press, July 2021). Her debut poetry pamphlet, Notes on the Use of the Austrian Scythe (2015), won the Templar Portfolio Award. In 1995, she was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for Europe, on behalf of the UK anti-roads movement, having been imprisoned for trying to stop a motorway being built through Twyford Down in Hampshire, England, near where she grew up. Emma has recently completed her PhD at Queens University Belfast, focusing on Eco Poetry and Ecocriticism.