Esther Woolfson is prize-winning writer of short stories, short film-scripts and essays. In 2008, her book ‘Corvus—A Life With Birds’ was published in Britain to widespread critical acclaim. Radio 4’s ‘Book of the Week’ and serialised in the Daily Telegraph, ‘Corvus’ was enthusiastically reviewed by national newspapers and by publications as diverse as The Spectator, Saga Magazine, the Financial Times, New Books Magazine, the London Review of Book, the Scottish Field as well as in wildlife publications. Her ‘Top Ten Birds in Fact and Fiction’ appeared in the Guardian. The book was enthusiastically reviewed in New Zealand and South Africa too. ‘Corvus’ was published in hardback by Counterpoint Press in the United States in 2009 and received similar critical acclaim, including a starred review in the influential Publisher’s Review and praise on ‘Bookslut’. One of America’s leading environmental magazines, Orion, described Woolfson as ‘a consummate naturalist’. The paperback edition of ‘Corvus’ is published by Counterpoint in April 2010.

Also in 2008, Esther Woolfson’s novel ‘Piano Angel’ was published by Two Ravens Press. Described by the Guardian as ‘…a brooding,intelligent work replete with ideas and gripping drama,’ it was shortlisted in 2009 for Scotland’s Saltire Society’s Homecoming Prize and has been longlisted for the Impac Dublin Award. Esther has contributed to the Guardian and has written on the environment for the radical American magazine n+1. She has appeared on ‘Womans’ Hour’ ‘Open Book,’ on B.B.C Scotland’s ‘Out of Doors’ and ‘The Book Café’. She was invited to give a seminar paper to Stirling University’s Department of Psychology. The paper, on consciousness in birds, was entitled ‘The Contemplative Crow.’ For ten years, until June 2009, she worked as a bookseller in Ottakar’s-later Waterstone’s, and in an independent bookshop in Deeside.