WES Friends Profile

As well as being co-director of Witchcraft Ltd, Liz writes science fiction and dark fantasy. Her 10 novels are published by Bantam Spectra and Night Shade Press in the USA and by Tor Macmillan in the UK. Four of her novels have been nominated for the Philip K Dick Award, and BANNER OF SOULS was also nominated for this year's Arthur C Clarke Award. She has appeared regularly on the New York Times' Best of Year lists. She has published over 50 short stories, many of which have been awarded Honourable Mention or been published in the Best of Year collections. She is secretary of the long-running Milford SF Writers' Workshop, and has also written travel pieces for the Rough Guide. She is in the process of co-editing an anthology based on the supernatural in Whitby.

Liz has degrees at BA and Master's level in Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence and a PhD in the History and Philosophy of Science, the latter from the University of Cambridge, and has worked for over a decade in international education, working with Central Asian governments and arranging scholarship programmes before freelancing as a writer. From 1996 onwards, she lived and worked intermittently in the former Soviet Republics of Central Asia, and has returned there recently on several occasions to research esoteric issues: visiting shamans in the Siberian Altai, and travelling across Uzbekistan and the Gobi Desert in search of (allegedly) ancient Celts.

Liz has been a member of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids for many years and at Druid grade, is a tutor for the Order. She has also trained with Emma Restall-Orr. From a Welsh and Scots background, with a family in Pembrokeshire, she has a particular interest in Celtic studies. Her work as a writer has led her into research in the subjects of John Dee and Enochian magic, Kabbalism, and the Golden Dawn. She has recently completed a certificate in Herbal Medicine and is about to start a BSc in the subject. With Trevor, she has a particular interest in environmentalism, organic gardening, and sustainable development, and has been a volunteer conservationist in Pembrokeshire on the island of Skomer, and in Sussex. She has also worked as a volunteer archaeologist, at the Crickley Hill fort in Gloucestershire.

Liz has read Tarot for 20 years (including a stint on Brighton Pier) and also reads Ogham.

Liz has a love of horse racing and is a member at Cheltenham Races.

Together with Trevor she hosts a talk-show on Internet Radio - "The Witching Hour".

She is a Melissa at the Goddess Temple in Glastonbury and a Companion of, and registered volunteer at, the Chalice Well. She supports Friends of the Earth, the Woodland Trust and the Pembrokeshire Wildlife Trust.