Harriet Rix is a tree science consultant who travels widely studying trees around the world. She was formerly based at the Tree Council, where she researched tree diseases and urban tree strategies. Rix holds a biochemistry degree from the University of Oxford and an MPhil in the history and philosophy of science from the University of Cambridge. She was a London Library Emerging Writer, and her writing and photography have been published in the Financial Times, London Review of Books, and Times Literary Supplement, among others.