If you have been searching for historical novels that remember the voices history forgot to record, you are in the right place. Kevin Woodard writes the books the literary world has been missing.
Writing within spiritual and historical traditions novel by novel.
Kevin Woodard was born in Memphis,Tennessee. He built his life around a commitment to traditions that guided him from childhood. That path led him into African spiritual societies with roots in Central and West African knowledge systems, including initiations to their mystery schools. A dream beckoned him to the mountains of northern Haiti, where he spent 2 years living among rural communities, learning from priest and practitioners whose knowledge preserved a world that existed before the Atlantic slave trade. Their teachings, passed across generations and opened parts of those traditions rarely shared with outsiders.
He returned to the United States and was later visited by his departed grandmother and encouraged to relocate naming the West coast of Africa as a destination. He continued his life there merging his practices with a form of African shamanic work molded by his relationship with a farming spirit known as Kouzen in Haiti and Ndundulu in West Africa, a healer whose presence reaches back more than three millennia to ancient Nubia. Decades of devotion as a spiritualist and drew the attention of three goddesses known across many cultures as Hecate. Their recognition formed a bond with him and his wife Ebiware Ayah, including the gift of a sacred book guarded by a being from the realm of the Elysian fields named Brenna who is known as the Greatest Story Teller in the Universe.
It is from this all seeing book that all the stories and novels you see on this site derive from. Kevin Woodard is a novelist writing at the intersection of historical realism, theological depth, and the spiritual tradition of cultures often left out of the Western canon. His fiction lives in the specific detail of places and eras: Fourteenth century Connacht, post-coup Accra 1978, the savanna country north of Tamale, the Mongolian steppes, the antiquated mountain of Epirus Greece. He writes in a register where historical truth is the load-bearing structure of the prose, not its decoration, because the worlds he describes are worlds he has walked.
He is the sole creator of the Akhasic anthology, a connected universe of ten novels spanning continents and centuries. The anthology includes: Seed of The Undying, For The Love Of Levi, The Demon Pearl Of Oman, and others. Each book stands alone while contributing to a larger cosmology of moral inheritance, hidden lineage, and the long arc of consequence across generations. He has also written extensively in screen formats, including feature film and limited series bibles built to translate his prose universe to television.
