KAREN CUSHMAN is the author of Catherine, Called Birdy, a Newbery Honor Book, and The Midwife’s Apprentice, which received the Newbery Medal. Her acclaimed historical fiction also includes The Ballad of Lucy Whipple; Alchemy and Meggy Swann; and, most recently, Will Sparrow’s Road. This time she wanted to write a story set in a place “like medieval England, but with magic.” Grayling’s Song, her first fantasy, is the result.
Ms. Cushman lives in the Seattle area with her husband, who is a magician in his own way.