Roc Sandford is a writer, climate & nature dissident, organic farmer, and member of artists’ collectives Ocean Rebellion and Hard Art. Offering not only a lyrical take on nature’s mystery but a rational one on the dangerous stresses we face, Burnt Rain was published by Hazel Press in July 2023. Rebel, Rebel, an Emergency Dialogue, an experimental non-fiction account of ordinary rebels in the early days of Extinction Rebellion, written with Susana Medina, was published in June 2024.
Writing, editing, profiles, reviews or interviews have appeared in Dark Mountain, Telegraph, Times, Mail, Guardian, Observer, Sun, Mirror, Scotsman, Herald, Reuters & many other outlets. Roc’s work has been the subject of documentaries & dramatisations by BBC (Krusso and Someone Must Be Lying), Dmitri Galitzine, Arte, ZDF, RTÉ One and Stacey Dooley amongst others.
As a mathematical geographer, Roc modelled perceptual bias at Bristol, Penn State, and UCL; was a member of David Graeber's Brains Trust; is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and is a director of Mathematical Sciences UK and community arts charity Gerry’s Pompeii. Having helped start Writers Rebel, David Graeber Institute, Absurd Intelligence and Catalysers, Roc presents a message of climate and nature collapse, inadequate complex system modelling, the currently dismal policy response and sector-specific asks at ministerial level and below to multilateral bodies, government, finance, accountancy & academia.
Roc lives on the off-grid Hebridean Isle of Gometra and otherwise part time in London.