Author: Maya MacGregor

Maya MacGregor is a Scottish-American novelist, singer, and Gaelic speaker who has also published as Emmie Mears and M. Evan MacGriogair. The Masked Songbird appeared under the Emmie Mears name and introduced the Shrike sequence, following a young Edinburgh woman whose emerging abilities draw her into danger during the Scottish independence referendum. MacGregor has described the project’s earlier title, Shrike, and the drafting path that preceded publication. Rights material identifies the novel as the first Shrike volume and places its action in contemporary Scotland, where political uncertainty intersects with speculative adventure. Interviews connect the author’s creative life to music, performance, and Scottish Gaelic. The Masked Songbird therefore belongs to an alias-spanning bibliography and a Scottish imaginative setting, using a superhero origin story to examine identity, responsibility, and public courage today.