Merryn Glover was born and brought up in South Asia, is an Australian citizen and now lives in the Highlands of Scotland. A prize-winning author, she writes fiction, drama, poetry and features, with stories and plays broadcast on BBC Radio, including Broken Bread. Her first novel A House Called Askival is set in India and her second, Of Stone and Sky, is set in Scotland (Polygon Books, April 2021). Her current project is the non-fiction book Hidden Fires: A Cairngorms Journey with Nan Shepherd (Polygon, April 2022).