
Finisia Medrano and The Return
Joanna Pocock
28th August, 2019
To introduce our latest Featured Mountaineer, an extract from Joanna Pocock's 'Surrender: Mid-Life in the American West' about transsexual rewilder, Finisia Medrano.
Joanna Pocock is a British-Canadian writer currently living in London. Her work of creative non-fiction, Surrender , won the Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize in 2018 and was published in May 2019. Blending memoir with reportage, criticism with nature writing, Surrender explores the changing landscape of the American West, inspired by a two-year stay in Montana. It will be published in Canada in 2019 and in the U.S. in 2020. Her writing has appeared in Dazed & Confused, Granta Online, The London Sunday Independent, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, Orion Magazine, Tank, 3:AM and the Dark Mountain online edition. She teaches Prose Fiction and Narrative Non-Fiction at the University of the Arts, London.