My writing portfolio
Dr Anthea Lacchia
Do you need a science or nature writer, a content writer or a journalist? I have over 15 years of professional writing experience, covering stories about science, environment, animals, nature, fossils, science policy, research culture and universities for a number of outlets, including The Guardian, Noteworthy, The Journal.ie, Nature, The Irish Times, RTE', and many others. I also worked as Ireland Correspondent for Research Professional, covering research policy news in Ireland (2021-2023).
I am currently working on a creative non-fiction book project, among other writing projects, and am the author of three upcoming books: DK Planet Earth (April 2026); An Anthology of Gemstones (upcoming); and Geography in Graphics (upcoming).
I'm a regular contributor to DK's science books for children and adults. Titles I worked on include: Water Cycles, Life Cycles, The Science of the Earth, Timelines of Everything, Knowledge Encyclopedia Earth, Very Hungry Caterpillar discovers Earth; DK Five Facts a Day: Science; and DK Treasures of the Earth (2025).
I love to write creatively about nature, including for literary magazines such as Tamarind and Consilience (poetry, and about science and research culture, with a particular interest in art-science connections. Over the years, I've produced and presented audio for BBC's Digital Planet programme. I hold an MSc in Science Communication from Imperial College London, a Diploma in Journalism from the National Council for the Training of Journalists in the UK, and a certificate in creative non-fiction writing from University of Cambridge.
I've won a number of awards and grants for my writing and science communication work (SFI Science Writer of the Year at the SMEDIAS in 2015, Erice Science Journalism fellowship 2020). I'm a member of the ISTJA (Irish Science and Technology Journalists Association). Most recently, I won first prize in the Irish Wildlife Trust Nature Connection Writing Competition (2026).
My academic research on geoscience, science communication, public perception of geoscience, and children's coping strategies to climate change has been published in scientific journals including PLOS One and Geoscience Communication.
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