Mary McMyne’s stories, poems, and essays have appeared widely in venues like Gulf Coast, Redivider, Strange Horizons, Painted Bride Quarterly, Arkansas Review, and Southern Humanities Review. Her fiction has won the Faulkner-Wisdom Prize for a Novel-in-Progress, a grant from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, and a National Endowment for the Arts Parent Fellowship to Vermont Studio Center, among other honors. Her debut fairy tale poetry chapbook, Wolf Skin (Dancing Girl Press, 2014), won the Elgin Chapbook Award. Her criticism has appeared in Verse and American Book Review.
A graduate of the New York University MFA program, she edits poetry for Enchanted Living.