Philip Hayward is an adjunct professor in the School of Community, Culture and Global Studies at the University of British Columbia, Kelowna. He is editor of the Environmental Humanities journal Shima, a strategic advisor to the international River Cities Network and co-coordinator of the Flowzones project in northern New South Wales (Australia). He has written widely on riverine and related aquatic topics in various journals and his latest volume is Aquapelagos: Integrated Marine and Terrestrial Assemblages, co-edited with May Joseph (Pratt Institute, New York) and published by Routledge in December 2024.