SHORT BIO
Amy S. Kaufman is the author of The Traitor of Sherwood Forest, a Robin Hood retelling based on the medieval ballads (Penguin Books, 2025). She has written about the Middle Ages for both academic journals and popular venues, including The Washington Post, and is co-author of The Devil’s Historians: How Modern Extremists Abuse the Medieval Past (University of Toronto Press, 2020). A former medieval studies professor, Amy writes from Vancouver Island, near BC’s very own Sherwood Forest.
LONG BIO
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, Amy went on to earn her PhD in medieval literature from Northeastern University in Boston, MA. Her scholarship focuses on medieval women, myths, legends, and medievalism in modern world. 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 Middle Ages for scholarly journals and popular venues, including The Washington Post.
Amy taught ancient and medieval literature at Wesleyan College and Middle Tennessee State University before moving to Vancouver Island to write. The Traitor of Sherwood Forest is her debut novel.
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