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Ashley Douglas
Ashley is a historian, translator and author, specialising in LGBT+ history and the Scots language. She writes for both children and adults. She has strong experience of delivering panel events and talks for adults, and of delivering readings and workshops for children based on her picture books.
Ashley has worked with a range of national heritage, literary and educational organisations, including the National Library of Scotland, Historic Environment Scotland, Time for Inclusive Education and the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
Ashley is a contributing author to three fairytale collections in Scots (Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytales in Scots, Grimms ’Fairytales in Scots, and Aesop’s Fables in Scots). She is also the author of the picture book The Lass and The Quine (2025), which was the first ever original LGBT+ inclusive children’s book in Scots.
July 2026 will see the publication of Ashley’s book WITH MY OWN HAND: The secret life of Marie Maitland, Scotland’s sixteenth-century Sappho - a narrative non-fiction biography, which shares Marie's remarkable untold story, based on years of original historical research. Ashley is also the author of the essay ‘My Sapphic City’, published as part of the anthology who will be remembered here (2025).