An old, shadowy image of a dark haired woman in a flowing floral dress holding a sheep's skull under her chin. Her face is in shadow and she wears an intense expression. The surface of the photo is distressed
Wet plate portrait by Gordon Fraser using and antique collodion camera

I’m Allyson Shaw, author of Ashes and Stones: a journey through Scotland in search of women hunted as witches, published by Pegasus Books in North America and Sceptre/Hodder & Stoughton in the UK. I’m an award-winning poet and independent researcher with a background in Women Studies and Art History. I currently live in Orkney with my partner and a pride of three cats. 

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Author of Ashes & Stones, short listed for the Royal Society of Literature's Christopher Bland Prize. "Shaw passes over centuries-old footsteps like fingers on Braille; the lilt of her voice on the page is lyrical magic." --The New York Times