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