Gillian Marucha Bradshaw (born May 14, 1956) is an American writer of
historical fiction,
historical fantasy,
children's literature,
science fiction, and contemporary science-based novels, who currently lives in Britain. Her serious historical novels are often set in classical antiquity —
Ancient Egypt,
Ancient Greece, the
Byzantine Empire,
Saka and the
Greco-Bactrian Kingdom,
Imperial Rome,
Sub-Roman Britain and
Roman Britain. She has also written two novels set in the
English Civil War.