Kirsty Logan is the author of the novels The Gracekeepers and The Gloaming, the short story collections A Portable Shelter and The Rental Heart & Other Fairytales, the flash fiction chapbook The Psychology of Animals Swallowed Alive, and the short memoir The Old Asylum in the Woods at the Edge of the Town Where I Grew Up. Her books have won the LAMBDA Literary Award, the Polari First Book Prize, the Saboteur Award, the Scott Prize and the Gavin Wallace Fellowship, and been selected for the Radio 2 Book Club and the Waterstones Book Club. In 2019 she was selected as one of the ten most outstanding LGBTQ British writers for the International Literature Showcase. Her short fiction and poetry has been translated into Japanese and Spanish, recorded for radio and podcasts, exhibited in galleries and distributed from a vintage Wurlitzer cigarette machine. She lives in Glasgow with her wife and their rescue dog. @kirstylogan www.kirstylogan.com
Powerful, imaginative, compelling - this is myth-making at its best -- Val McDermid Beautiful......fierce and dream-like...powerful...compelling, haunting, and enriching * Scotsman * Spooky, timeless, feminist, inventive, unsettling... this book is every bit as atmospheric and compelling as you'd hope. -- Viv Groskop 'A hugely compelling book that seeks to rewrite what we think about witches. Dark, luscious prose wrapped around ideas that have enormous contemporary relevance. Kirsty Logan is at the height of her powers' -- Heather Parry 'Powerful, beautiful and deeply unsettling. The prose is magical' -- Sally Magnusson