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Judith Starkston

Judith Starkston has spent too much time exploring the remains of the ancient worlds of the Greeks and Hittites. Their myths and clashes inspire her fiction and open gates to magical realms. She has degrees in Classics from the University of California, Santa Cruz and Cornell. She loves myths and telling stories, and her novels imbue fantasy with the richness of ancient worlds. The first book in her Trojan Threads Series, Hand of Fire was a semi-finalist for the M.M. Bennett’s Award for Historical Fiction. Priestess of Ishana, the first in her historical fantasy Tesha series, won the San Diego State University Conference Choice Award. Judith is represented by Richard Curtis.

Images of griffins from a collection of Evans drawings in the Bodleian Library

Writing Transcendence and Griffins, In Archaeology: Mesopotamian Laundry, Death of Alex the Great, Pompeii’s Survivors

Writing transformative scenes and mythological griffins. In Archaeology, a cuneiform argument about Mesopotamian laundry, a theory about Alexander the Great’s death, and tracking down the survivors of Pompeii