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"Her voice on the page is lyrical magic..."--The New York Times.
Allyson Shaw is the author of Ashes and Stones: a Scottish Journey in Search of Witches & Witness published by Sceptre/Hodder & Stoughton in the UK and by Pegasus Books in North America. Ashes and Stones was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature’s 2024 Christopher Bland Prize and was chosen by Waterstones as a Scottish Book of the Month.
Shaw is a speaker, writer, and multimedia artist, presenting her work on podcasts, at literary festivals and events across Britain. Her multimedia work was recently exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum’s Copy Machine Manifesto show. Her writing on folklore and history has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Monster Verse: Poems Human and Inhuman in the Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets Series, Rituals and Declarations and The Bottle Imp. Her speculative fiction has appeared in Luna Station Quarterly, Fireside Quarterly and Tales from Fiddler’s Green, among others. She spent her formative years in California and now lives in Orkney.
She is supported by Creative Scotland and by a grant from The Authors’ Foundation of the Society of Authors.
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