Scottish fantasy author Shona Kinsella is the author of The Heart of Winter, The Vessel of KalaDene series, dark Scottish fantasy novella Petra MacDonald and the Queen of the Fae, industrial fantasy novella The Flame and the Flood, and non-fiction Outlander and the Real Jacobites: Scotland’s Fight for the Stuarts. Her short fiction can be found in various magazines and anthologies. She served as editor of the British Fantasy Society’s fiction publication, BFS Horizons for four years and is now the Chair of the British Fantasy Society.

Shona is an avid reader with a love for language and is most often to be found with her nose in a book. She has worked in varied industries, from acting to the civil service, and has a degree in law from the University of Strathclyde. As well as writing, she currently works as a freelance editor with authors and publishers across the globe.

Shona lives near the picturesque Loch Lomond with her husband and three children. When she's not writing, doing laundry or wrangling the children, she’s running the British Fantasy Society.

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Awards

2021 - The Flame and the Flood, shortlisted for Best Novella, British Fantasy Awards

2023 - Outlander and the Real Jacobites: Scotland’s Fight for the Stuarts, shortlisted for Best Non-Fiction, British Fantasy Awards

2023 - The Call of El Tunche, shortlisted for Best Short Fiction, British Fantasy Awards

2024 - Professor Flotsam’s Cabinet of Peculiarities, shortlisted for Best Short Fiction, British Fantasy Awards