Martin Shaw

Dr. MARTIN SHAW is a mythologist, storyteller and author of " A Branch From The Lightning Tree: Ecstatic Myth and the Grace in Wildness" (white cloud press 2011). Director of the Westcountry School of Myth in the United Kingdom, he is visiting lecturer on Desmond Tutu's leadership programme at Oxford University. Widely regarded as one of the most exciting new teachers of the mythic imagination, he has worked closely alongside Robert Bly, Coleman Barks, Gioia Timpanelli, and Daniel Deardorff. He is currently working on two new books whilst employing a busy schedule of teaching in both the U.S. and U.K. He lives with his family in Dartmoor National Park in Devon, England.