Saija Kuusela

Saija Kuusela (b. 1979) is a project manager for the Finnish Environment Institute’s Biodiversity Centre with expertise in forest biodiversity and climate change. As well as a PhD in Ecology Evolutionary Biology from the University of Helsinki, Kuusela has studied Creative Writing at the Open University of Jyväskylä. She lives with her Finnish Lapphund in a 100-year-old croft in the forest of Jaala in southern Finland. Kuusela enjoys daily meditations and walks along the coastal meadows. LOOK AT ME was her debut novel.