Meanda Books is the imprint for books by the author, Tracey Warr. The books are in a range of genres, including medieval historical fiction, eco/speculative fiction, and art writing.
Tracey Warr was born in London and lives in a small village in southern France, near Toulouse, where she is surrounded by medieval castles and spectacular landscapes and riverscapes. She also spent several years living in southwest Wales. She is a keen, slow, river swimmer; a voracious reader of history books and fiction; and a gleeful grandmother.
She was May Queen at primary school, swimming team captain at secondary school, and has a PhD in art history and MAs and BA in English literature and creative writing. She studied at University of Hull, Oxford University, University of Plymouth, and University of Wales Trinity Saint David.
The castles and landscapes of Wales and France inspire her historical fiction. She is the author of six historical novels set in medieval Europe and centred on strong female leads. She draws on old maps, chronicles, poems and objects to create fictional worlds for her readers to step into. Her writing awards include an Author’s Foundation Award, a Literature Wales Writer’s Bursary, the Rome Film Festival Book Initiative and a Santander Research Award. She led the team organising the Historical Novels Society 2024 UK conference at Dartington Hall, Devon.
Before becoming a full-time writer she worked as a contemporary art curator and art history academic. She worked with artists including James Turrell, Marina Abramovic, Helen Chadwick, and Christian Thompson. She was a university lecturer and programme lead at Oxford Brookes University and Dartington College of Arts. She was a guest professor at Bauhaus University, Weimar and Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. At the beginning of her career, she worked for the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, Chatto & Windus publishers and the Arts Council of Great Britain. She works as an academic editor for Scribbr and Oxbridge Proofreading.
She is a member of the Society of Authors, the Historical Novels Society, and The History Quill.
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