Sylvia Linsteadt is a scholar of ancient history and myth and writes a popular Substack, The Pollen Basket. She has an Honors BA in Literary Arts from Brown University where she minored in Ancient Studies, is an associate to the Institute of Archaeomythology in Northern California, and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Exeter where she is researching mythic and literary motherlines. She spent a year living on the Greek island of Crete to research many of the themes in this book, as well as a novel-in-progress set in the Minoan Bronze Age. Sylvia has also studied animal behavioural ecology and is a certified wildlife tracker. She is the author of numerous books, including the Carnegie-nominated The Wild Folk and its sequel The Wild Folk Rising, the folkloric novel Tatterdemalion and Lost Worlds of the San Francisco Bay Area, which was the winner of the 2018 Northern California Book Award For Best General Nonfiction.
