Rachel Gough is a PhD researcher in the Department of Film & Screen Media, University College Cork, where she researches representations of landscape and ecology in Irish film. She is also a fiction writer and filmmaker. Her short films have been screened at Fastnet Film Festival and her fiction has been published in Quarryman, Bealtaine, Outpost and National Flash Fiction Day Anthology. In 2022 she was awarded the ‘Editor’s Choice Award’ by the National Flash Fiction Day Anthology.