Bethany Handley
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Bethany Handley

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Bethany Handley is an award-winning writer, poet and disability activist from Monmouthshire, south Wales. Named one of the UK’s 10 most influential disabled people in politics, law, and media by the Shaw Trust 2024, she campaigns for access to nature. My Body is a Meadow: Finding Freedom in the Outdoors (Headline, 2026), her debut non-fiction book, is a rallying cry to reevaluate our relationships with each other and the natural world, drawing parallels between climate justice, biodiveristy loss and disability. Bethany co-edited Beyond / Tu Hwnt (Lucent Dreaming, 2025), a bilingual anthology of Welsh Deaf and disabled writers shortlisted in the British Book Awards 2026. Her poetry pamphlet Cling Film was published by Seren in 2025, and her work has been featured by BBC One, BBC Radio 4, Country Living, The Guardian, the Forward Book of Poetry 2026, and more.
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