Gwen Stonebridge (born 1985) is a Welsh-British writer of botanical fantasy and folklore-infused adventure. She studied medieval literature and manuscript culture at the University of York and later trained as a community herbalist in Monmouthshire. Before publishing fiction, she worked as a rare-books cataloguer and a bookseller in Bath. Her debut novel, The Thornwright Atlas, appeared in 2017, followed by Nightshade Republic in 2020. She lives in Bristol with her partner and a rescue lurcher, leads urban foraging walks, and contributes essays on herb-lore to small-press journals.
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