Dr Gail Simmons

Personal statement

Gail is a lecturer on Bath Spa’s MA in Nature and Travel Writing (low residency MA).

Her professional career is as a travel writer and journalist. Over the past twenty years she has written for the UK and international press, and broadcast for BBC Radio 4. Her first book, The Country of Larks: A Chiltern Journey, was published in 2019 and was shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards. She is now embarked on her second book, to be published by Headline in 2023.

Gail has been a tutor on the MA since 2015 and has previously run travel writing courses at Oxford and Cambridge Universities.

Academic qualifications

• PhD Creative Writing, University of Reading
• MA Medieval Studies, University of York
• BA English and History, University of Keele

Professional memberships

• Society of Authors

Areas of expertise

• Travel writing (books, journalism)
• Life writing (memoir)
• Medieval history