Merryn Glover writes fiction, drama, poetry and journalism. In a life spent crossing cultures, she was brought up in South Asia, went to University in Australia and has called Scotland home for nearly 30 years. Her plays and short stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and Radio Scotland and widely anthologised. Her first novel, A House Called Askival is set in an Indian hill-station, where she went to school, and her second, Of Stone and Sky, in the Cairngorms where she now lives. Long-listed for the Highland Book Prize, it won Book of the Year at the Bookmark Festival 2021. Merryn was the first Writer in Residence for the Cairngorms National Park in 2019 and is a regular contributor to the Guardian Country Diary. In her recent non-fiction book, The Hidden Fires: A Cairngorms Journey with Nan Shepherd, she responds to the classic of nature writing, The Living Mountain. Also a workshop-leader and storyteller, Merryn is co-host with Hamish Napier of the Storylands Sessions, a series of music and word events in Badenoch.