Paula Aamli

Paula Aamli (“OM-lee”) holds a doctorate in organisational change and has worked in the charity sector and in financial services. Her thesis, "Working through climate grief: A poetic inquiry", explores individual and institutional responses to the emerging climate crisis, using arts-based research and poetry. An article based on Paula’s thesis has been included in a special issue of Educational Action Research journal in 2022, focusing on Education and responses to climate change. She has also authored a chapter for “Educational Fabulations: Teaching and Learning for a World Yet to Come”, edited by Diane Conrad and Sean Wiebe, a textbook which uses speculative fiction to consider possible futures for Education and educators.

Paula has had poems published, or selected for future publication, in Allegro Poetry Magazine, Dissonance Magazine, FreezeRay Poetry, The Lindenwood Review, Mutiny!, Paddler Press, Shot Glass (a poetry journal of short verse), and the Tiger Moth Review. One of Paula’s poems in Paddler Press was selected for their Pushcart Prize nominations in 2021.

Paula’s work has also appeared in the anthologies, After the House, 2019, published by Jonathan Cook, and Between the Lines 2021, published by City Lit. Paula has been selected as a finalist by Wingless Dreamer, for their Midnight competition, and by Literary Taxidermy, for their 2021 competition based on the work of Katherine Mansfield.