Sylvia V. Linsteadt is a writer and artist based in California. Her collection of stories, The Gray Fox Epistles, won the James D. Phelan Literary Award from the San Francisco Foundation in 2014. Her other books include The Wild Folk - which was nominated for the 2019 CILIP Carnegie Medal - The Wild Folk Rising and Our Lady of the Dark Country. @WildTalewort Rima Staines is an artist living in Devon, UK. She is the co-founder of Hedgespoken, a travelling storytelling theatre and small press. Rima has exhibited paintings internationally, and her artwork has appeared on books, magazines and record covers on both sides of the Atlantic. @tilsamka
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