Everard Wakefield (b. 1986) is a British writer and former conservator of illuminated manuscripts. Raised in York, he studied medieval studies at the University of St Andrews and later trained in archival restoration in Oxford. His essays on early chemistry and folk medicine have appeared in small press journals, and his short fiction has won regional awards in the North of England. Wakefield now lives in Bristol, where he volunteers at a community bindery and restores antique astrolabes; when not writing, he hikes the Welsh Marches collecting stories of border alchemists.
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