MARY MCMYNE’s short stories, poems, and essays have appeared in Gulf Coast, Redivider, Painted Bride Quarterly, Strange Horizons, Southern Humanities Review, Apex Magazine, and other journals. Her fiction has won the Faulkner 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. Her debut fairy tale poetry chapbook, Wolf Skin (Dancing Girl Press, 2014), won the Elgin Chapbook Award. Her book reviews have appeared in venues like Verse and American Book Review.
A graduate of the New York University MFA program, she lives between Florida and northern Michigan, where she is an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Lake Superior State University.