Sophie Pierce is a writer with a passionate interest in our emotional connection to natural landscapes. Her memoir, The Green Hill: Letters to a son (Wilton Square Books, April 2026), explores this in the context of traumatic bereavement.  Rock Idols: A Guide to Dartmoor in 28 Tors (Wild Things Publishing, April 2025) is co-written with her husband Alex Murdin. Sophie’s essays have been published in The Clearing (Little Toller Books) and Caught by the River.  Sophie is also the co-author, with Matt Newbury, of five wild swimming guides; the latest, Wild Swimming Walks Exmoor and North Devon came out in April 2024. Until 2020 she was a radio and TV reporter for BBC South West, and had a varied career spanning over 20 years, covering stories on everything from natural disasters through to political scandals and skateboarding ducks. In October 2022 Sophie co-led a residential memoir course with fellow writer Tanya Shadrick, for the literary charity the Charles Causley Trust.