Dr Kate Forsyth is an award-winning author, poet, and storyteller whose work spins together art, folklore, history and myth into spellbinding new tales. 

Her historical novels for adults include Psykhe, a reimagining of the ancient Greek myth from a feminist perspective; The Crimson Thread, a retelling of the myth of the minotaur set in Crete during World War II; The Wild Girl, the story of the forbidden romance behind the Grimm brothers’ famous fairy tales which was named Most Memorable Love Story; and Bitter Greens, a reimagining of ‘Rapunzel’ which won the American Library Award for Best Historical Fiction.

If you could have dinner with any historical figure, who would it be and why?

Mary, Queen of Scots, so I could heat her versions of her brief and turbulent reign and long imprisonment afterwards - till only recently, all the history about her has been written by men.