Day of appearance – Sunday
Jean Menzies is an author, presenter and ancient historian born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland. She has a PhD in classics and has spent more than a decade creating accessible content online about literature and history.
In 2020, she won the BAMB Breakthrough Author award for her first children’s non-fiction book, Greek Myths: Meet the Heroes, Gods, and Monsters of Ancient Greece. She has since written and given talks on history and myth for all ages. The Lady of the Lake is her debut novel.
Current Release
Panel information – “Art is the retelling of certain themes in a new light” – George Lucas
Inspirations can come from all walks of life, and we are massively influenced but what comes before. So much so that it can sometimes spark a story or encourage us to write our own versions or tell the tales using our own voices and that is exactly what our guests have done with their new books which they will be discussing in our “retellings” panel.
Asli Jensen, Cristin Williams, Jean Menzies, M. A. Kuzniar – Chair