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Jay Griffiths is the author of "Wild: An Elemental Journey," "Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time," and "Anarchipelago."

She said, "To my mind, at worst, the West operates a kind of ‘intellectual apartheid’ – the idea that our way of thinking is the only one. Really, there are more ways of living and thinking than we could ever imagine." during an interview about the experiences discussed in her first book, "Wild: An Elemental Journey."

Griffiths was born in 1965 in Manchester, U.K. and studied at Oxford. She then traveled around the world visiting indigenous communities and learning from them. Her books are based on her learning and her travels. Notably, she visited West Papua and the Amazon.

Griffiths was the winner of the Barnes and Noble Discover Award for Non–fiction in 2003, and the Orion Book Award in 2007. She has been published in the Observer, the Guardian, the Ecologist and Resurgence magazine. She is the associate editor of Resurgence magazine.

Griffiths currently lives in a shed on the edge of Epping Forest in Essex as part of an artist's collective.