Simon Leyland

SIMON LEYLAND is a British author, historian, and former City trader who exchanged financial markets for archives and libraries. His books include Witch Please: A Cultural History of Women Who Wouldn't Behave, A Splendidly Smutty Dictionary of Sex, and The Men Who Stare at Hens: Great Irish Eccentrics.

Leyland’s poetry has appeared in Versal, Salzburg Poetry Review, and Moth magazine, and he has published poetry collections with Erbacce.

Simon lives on the west coast of Ireland, in Connemara.

Simon Leyland’s books are published by Turner Publishing.

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