Sethi has written for
The Guardian, The Observer, The Sunday Times,
The Independent, the
New Statesman,
Granta,
The Times Literary Supplement and
British Vogue among others. In broadcasting, she has been a critic, commentator and presenter on
BBC programmes and has spoken at festivals. She has been on
Ramblings on
BBC Radio 4, when she and
Clare Balding walked in
Hope Valley, Derbyshire. Sethi's essay "On Class and the Countryside" was published in the anthology
The Wild Isles: An Anthology of the Best of British and Irish Nature Writing. Other anthologies she has been published in include
Women on Nature,
We Mark Your Memory: Writing from the Descendants of Indenture, and
Way Makers: An Anthology of Women’s Writing About Walking (2023). She was a
writer in residence at the
Emerging Writers' Festival in
Melbourne, Australia. She has been a judge of the
Women's Prize for Fiction, the
British Book Awards and the
Costa Book Awards. Sethi is the author of the memoir
I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain, published in 2021. In 2021,
I Belong Here was shortlisted for the
Wainwright Prize in the Nature Writing category and won a
Books Are My Bag Readers' Award. It was nominated for the
Royal Society of Literature's
Ondaatje Prize 2022 for an outstanding work that "evokes the spirit of a place". Sethi has written about
racism in the United Kingdom and about being the victim of a
race hate crime. She has also written about using nature to help with anxiety, and about class and access to the countryside. He told her that she didn't "look like" she was from Manchester. ==References==