About the Author

Bethany W. Pope is an award-winning author. She has published several collections of poetry: A Radiance (Cultured Llama, 2012), Crown of Thorns (Oneiros Books, 2013), The Gospel of Flies (Writing Knights Press, 2014), Undisturbed Circles (Lapwing, 2014), and The Rag and Boneyard (Indigo Dreams, 2016). Her chapbook Among The White Roots will be released by Three Drops Press next autumn. Masque is her first novel.

Originally from America, Bethany has lived in five states and five countries including, for several years, an orphanage in South Carolina. She has now made the UK her permanent home. In her life, she has played many roles: minister’s daughter; the monster under the stairs; farmhand; midwife for cattle; caster of lead printing plates; veterinarian’s surgical assistant; high-school drop-out; roller-skate-wearing waitress; university lecturer – all of these things have contributed to her career as a writer. She knows a thing or two about wearing a mask.

Bethany is an avid sabre fencer. She lives with her husband and a small yellow budgie who answers to Diogenes. You can find out more about her work at BethanyWPope.com