Anna Laurent is an award-winning artist and author. Her projects include the internationally exhibited "Dispersal" project; a book about Victorian botanic wall charts (2016, University of Chicago Press); "The Iraqi Seed Project", a documentary about biodiversity in the Fertile Crescent; and commissioned work in the Temperate House at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.\n\nAnna studied literature at Harvard University and holds an MSc in History & Philosophy of Science from University College of London.