Kirsty Hartsiotis is a Stroud-based storyteller, writer and museum curator. She has been telling stories to adults and children of all ages professionally since 2000, and has lived in Gloucestershire since 2004.  

She came to storytelling with a lifelong love of stories and history, and a background in drama, heritage and education.  She has performed in theatres, bookshops, festivals, woods, castles, museums, schools, art centres, outdoor events, gatherings, sacred spaces, parties, libraries and cafes all around the country either solo or with storytelling company Fire Springs.

Kirsty combines her storytelling with writing. Specialising in folk tales, she is the author of the following collections of stories: Wiltshire Folk Tales (2011), Suffolk Folk Tales (2013), Gloucestershire Ghost Tales with Anthony Nanson (2015), and Suffolk Ghost Tales with Cherry Wilkinson (2017), Gloucestershire Folk Tales for Children (2020, forthcoming) and is a contributor to Ballad Tales ed. Kevan Manwaring (2017) and The Anthology of English Folk Tales (2017).

She is also a curator at The Wilson, Cheltenham.

Offers Performances, workshops

Contact
Phone 01453 840887
Website www.kirstyhartsiotis.co.uk
Social media accounts @StroudStory @Fire_Springs
https://www.facebook.com/FireSprings