Black Wood Women

We know the truths men have forgotten...
'Visceral, twisting, propulsive - Black Wood Women begs to be devoured' Stacey Halls

Michael Stewart is the author of three other novels: King Crow (winner of the Guardian's Not-the-Booker Award), Café Assassin and Ill Will: The Untold Story of Heathcliff; two short story collections: Mr Jolly and Four Letter Words; two poetry collections: Couples and The Dogs; and a hybrid memoir: Walking the Invisible: Following in the Brontës' Footsteps.
He is also the creator of the Brontë Stones project, four monumental stones situated in the landscape between the Brontë sisters' birthplace and the parsonage where they lived, inscribed with poems by Kate Bush, Carol Ann Duffy, Jeannette Winterson and Jackie Kay.
He has written for TV, radio and stage, and is the winner of the BBC Alfred Bradley Bursary Award and the BBC Short Range film competition. His BBC Radio 4 drama Excluded was shortlisted for the Imison Award. He was head of Creative Writing at the University of Huddersfield for eighteen years.