Dr Martin Shaw is an award-winning author of seventeen books. His most recent, Bardskull was named Book of the Day in the Guardian, and described as “rich and transgressive” in the Sunday Times. Founder of the Oral Tradition and Mythic Life courses at Stanford University, he has been a wilderness rites of passage guide for twenty-five years and is director of the Westcountry School of Myth in the UK. Robert Bly describes him as “a true master: one of the very greatest storytellers we have”, and Rowan Williams as “a true and transformative enchanter”. An Orthodox Christian, Shaw has introduced thousands of people to the mythic imagination.