mary mcmyne  
 
 
about the author

photoMary McMyne was raised on the outskirts of Baton Rouge, Louisiana by ex-hippie parents who introduced her to Thoreau and Lewis Carroll and Frank Zappa at an impressionable age. Her mother sewed and sang and grew flowers and vegetables. Her father read voraciously and told evasive stories about Woodstock. They sent her to traditional Chinese art lessons and kept her in notebooks, which she filled with soap operas about parallel worlds and cardboard-box spaceships, and poems about dragons and comets. 


Flash forward a few years, and she has a Master of Fine Arts in fiction from New York University and Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in English and creative writing from Louisiana State University. Her project reimagining the Odysseus myth during the Vietnam War from the perspective of an American soldier's wife earned her the Faulkner Prize for a Novel-in-Progress. Her fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and photography have been published or will soon appear in Phantom Drift: A Journal of New Fabulism, Prime Number Magazine, Double Dealer, New Delta Review, Exquisite Corpse: A Journal of Letters and Life, Country Roads, and Web Del Sol. She is also a contributor to The Nervous Breakdown.

She lives in downtown Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan with her husband David, their daughter Alice, their rescued border collie, and their elderly black cat. She teaches writing, creative writing, and literature at Lake Superior State University, where she co-edits Border Crossing, an international journal of art and literature. Before accepting the LSSU professorship, she taught at New York University, New Jersey City University, ASACAP Columbia University, and South Louisiana Community College.

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