Eve Elizabeth Crompton

About

I am a biologist by training and by choice and by nature. I notice life and death and change all around, in the tiniest of things. I think about it without trying and I feel it without thinking, which is how I’ve always been. Writing is how I think through my feeling and try with my thinking, because otherwise it would all be too much to hold. How could anyone hold all of life and death and change in one head?

I earned my BA in Integrative Biology at Harvard University before coming to the Royal College of Art, and I will return to the life sciences and medicine afterward. However, my year of immersion in the arts taught me that, whether I become a physician, a scientist, or a physician-scientist, I will continue to write—perhaps more for myself than anyone else.

Writing in detail about the everyday is my favorite mode of work, whether for the purpose of seeing something larger or for the express enjoyment of the small. I write about nature and fear, memory and childhood and queerness, family and wildlife biology and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I like to pick apart minute experiences by pulling on a little thread and seeing where it goes. I like to journal, to record my observations and to reflect on them transiently and to come back to them later.