Lucy Cooper is a writer with a special interest in folk tales, fairy tales and mythology. She grew up in Penwith, Cornwall, on the southwestern tip of England, a land steeped in tales of the “little people”. Her fascination with folk tales, myth and legend has taken her from the temples of China, to the back roads of Bulgaria, and lots of places in between. She has a degree in Anthropology, an MA in Professional Writing, specialising in Cornish folk tales, and an MA in Myth & Ecology. Her first book, The Element Encyclopedia of Fairies (HarperCollins, 2014) saw her delving into the topsy-turvy world of fairies… Lucy is faculty at The West Country School of Myth, a wildness-rites-of-passage guide in training, and editor at Cista Mystica Press publishing the work of award-winning mythteller Dr Martin Shaw on folklore, myth and initiatory encounters with wilderness. She spends her time between Penwith and Dartmoor, and in 2022 walked The Mary Michael Pilgrim Way between them and on to Avebury (some 350 miles), on a pilgrimage to re-connect with the stories and cycles of the land in our times of ecological crisis.