Melissa Harrison is an author and nature writer.Harrison's first novel, "Clay," was published in 2013. Her second novel, "At Hawthorn Time," was published in 2015. Her book of essays about rain, "Rain," was published in 2016. Her third novel, "All Among the Barley," was published in 2018.Harrison's collected columns for The Times will be published as "The Stubborn Light of Things: A Nature Diary" in 2020.Harrison has also edited four anthologies of writing about the seasons, published in 2016. She writes a monthly Nature Notebook column in The Times and reviews books for the Weekend FT, The Times, the Guardian, The Telegraph and Slightly Foxed.