Angie Spoto

Angie Spoto is an American writer living in Scotland. She loves stories that are dark and surreal, strange and magical, and is inspired by writers like Ursula Le Guinn, Octavia Butler, Leonora Carrington, and Naomi Novik. She lives beside the shore with her husband and son.
Twitter: @Angie_Spoto
Website: www.angiespoto.com

I want to explore the embodiment of grief, particularly through the unreal or fantastical. I’m writing a collection of short stories inspired by Scottish folklore. Each story uses elements of surrealism, fairy tales, and the Gothic to explore grief and loss. I’m very interested in the relationship between Scottish fairies and the dead. In Scottish folklore, it seems that fairyland and Death are muddled up. Scottish folklore feels like the perfect foundation on which to write about grief.

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