Tracey has written fiction for as long as she can remember, covering a variety of genres and subjects. She is currently enjoying success with her first stage play WITCH, a historical drama based on original English witch trial transcripts, which premiered in 2016. It has been used as Theatre In Education for Years 8 and 9 and for Exeter University undergrads, and has been included as a formal seminar in two Bristol University undergrad degree courses – “Witchcraft” and “History Outside the Box”. Its 75th performance was also its London premiere.
In 2017, Tracey’s Lovecraftian short story Dark Words was accepted in Fairy Tales and Folklore Reimagined, an anthology of prose and poetry from Between The Lines Publishing, Minnesota. As well as the dramatic and scary, she has also written ‘Sammy’s Saturday Job’, a story about a dragon for young children (2016) and ‘The Septillion of Hheserakh’, a collection of fictional creation myths and legends with a strong Norse flavour (2018). Tracey's short story "Guardians" appears in the 2020 anthology Tales of Deepest Darkest Devon by the Exeter Authors Association. She and her husband Mark co-wrote Dark Folklore, published in 2021 by The History Press. Her first full-length fantasy novel, Who Is Anna Stenberg? was published on 31st October 2023, by Liminal Books, a branch of Between The Lines Publishing. Her latest title, Devon's Forgotten Witches 1860-1910, again written with Mark and published by The History Press, came out in August 2025.
Tracey has previously written a regular folklore column for the Dartmoor newspaper The Moorlander, and is the researcher for The Folklore Podcast, created and run by her husband Mark.
Currently, Tracey is working on the sequel to Who Is Anna Stenberg? and a new non-fiction title which extends the research she undertook when writing WITCH.
Tracey is also the Project Manager for The Folklore Library & Archive, the Crediton-based registered charity founded by Mark which collects and preserves intangible, at-risk and hidden heritage. Learn more here.
When she is not writing or working for the Folklore Library, Tracey can be found behind a microphone, as one of the voices behind Devon-based indie audio production house and theatre company Circle of Spears Productions. She is a freelance narrator on Audible and has a sizeable list of stage, TV and film credits. She gives talks to a variety of groups on historical subjects such as witchcraft and early modern medicine. She doesn’t relax often, but when she does, it generally involves reading, coffee and her slightly unhealthy obsession with sock yarn. She and her family live near the edge of a forest in mid Devon with three weird chickens and a feline trip hazard.
