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Mary Sharratt and Boushka, her Welsh mare

Mary Sharratt is an American writer who lives with her Belgian husband in the Pendle region of Lancashire, England, the setting for her acclaimed 2010 novel, Daughters of the Witching Hill, which recasts the Pendle Witches of 1612 in their historical context as cunning folk and healers.

Previously she lived for twelve years in Germany. This, along with her interest in sacred music and herbal medicine, inspired her to write her most recent novel, Illuminations: A Novel of Hildegard von Bingen, which explores the dramatic life of the 12th century Benedictine abbess, composer, polymath, and powerfrau.

Winner of the 2005 WILLA Literary Award and a Minnesota Book Award Finalist, Mary has also written the acclaimed novels Summit Avenue (Coffee House 2000), The Real Minerva (Houghton Mifflin 2004), The Vanishing Point (Houghton Mifflin 2006), and co-edited the subversive fiction anthology Bitch Lit (Crocus Books 2006), which celebrates female anti-heroes--strong women who break all the rules. Her short fiction has been published in Twin Cities Noir (Akashic Books 2006).

Mary writes regular articles for Historical Novels Review and Solander on the theme of writing women back into history. When she isn't writing, she's usually riding her spirited Welsh mare through the Lancashire countryside.

 

More
.Fairy Tales for Women: Writing Exercise
By Mary Sharratt
.Through a Dark Forest: On Fairy Tales as Women's Stories and on Writing Summit Avenue
By Mary Sharratt
.Summit Avenue Author Uses Fairy Tales to Break Through Clichés
By Mary Ann Grossman
.Moments of Enchantment (at strangehorizons.com)
By Christopher Cobb

Author photo at top, courtesy of Anne Bullen.