Heidi Wyss

Heidi Wyss

Heidi Wyss (born 1975, Geneva) is a Swiss author.

Wyss was educated in Geneva and in the United Kingdom. She has worked as an histologist and technical writer. Her first novel "Gormglaith", published in 2007, has been described as a "Radical lesbian separatist cult hit set in a plausible future with a witchy bent", [The Secret Society of Lesbian Propellerheads, " [http://www.ssolp.org/index.php SSOLP home page] ", accessed February 1, 2008] "...like a female "Finnegans Wake"..." along with "touches of Tolkien" and reminiscent "...in some ways of the very intricate work of Patricia Kennealy-Morrison's Keltiad novels." [Swann, Morgaine, " [http://www.womenwriters.net/winter05/Gormglaith1.htm Gormglaith by Heidi Wyss] ", womenwriters.net, accessed February 1, 2008]

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External links

* [http://skepchick.org/blog/?p=636 Wyss interviewed at Skepchick.org]


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