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Amy S. Kaufman is the author of The Traitor of Sherwood Forest, a Robin Hood retelling based on the medieval ballads (Penguin Books, 2025). Amy holds a PhD in medieval literature and has written about the Middle Ages for both academic journals and popular venues, including The Washington Post. She is co-author of The Devil’s Historians: How Modern Extremists Abuse the Medieval Past (University of Toronto Press, 2020). Amy resides in Vancouver, BC. The Traitor of Sherwood Forest is her debut novel.
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Amy S. Kaufman is the author of The Traitor of Sherwood Forest, a Robin Hood retelling based on the medieval ballads (Penguin Books, 2025). Obsessed with ancient and medieval stories as a kid growing up in a mundane Florida suburb, Amy eventually went on to earn her PhD in medieval literature from Northeastern University—after brief stints as a receptionist, a bookkeeper, and a freelance editor. Amy’s scholarship focuses on medieval women, myths, legends, and the way the modern world sees the Middle Ages. She is co-author of The Devil’s Historians: How Modern Extremists Abuse the Medieval Past (University of Toronto Press, 2020) and has written about the medieval world for scholarly journals and popular venues, including The Washington Post.
Amy taught ancient and medieval literature at Wesleyan College and Middle Tennessee State University, but left academia to write some stories of her own. Now she lives in Vancouver, Canada, where she can’t stop taking pictures of the mountains. The Traitor of Sherwood Forest is her debut novel.
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