"She was a woodswoman, and she told me a story about a time long ago, when the woods sang with the voices of her kin..." One winter’s day in a forest in southern Sweden, Stina Gray found a story unlike anything she had ever heard before. The story initiated a journey that took her deep into the singing, weeping woods of her Motherland and to the heart of her path as a storyteller. The journey awakened her senses to the lore of the land, showing her that everyone and everything has a song to sing and a story to tell. The Earth is singing. When the Woods Sang is a book about that journey and about some of the songs, stories and people she met along the way.
Stina Gray is a storyteller and ethnologist with roots in Sweden and New Zealand. She is passionate about the healing and rewilding power of storytelling, and loves to share the magic, wonder and wisdom of story and myth with all ages. You can find her telling stories in the woods, by the campfire and at libraries, bookshops, museums and festivals.