Merlin is a fungal ecologist and author of Entangled Life, a million copy New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, and winner of the Royal Society Book Prize and the Wainwright Prize. Merlin is a research associate of the University of Oxford and the VU Amsterdam, the UK Policy Lead for the Fungi Foundation, a core member of the More-Than-Human Life Project, and Director of Impact for the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN).