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Wolf Skin Wins 2015 Elgin Chapbook Award

Posted on September 22, 2015November 25, 2015 by Mary McMyne

I received news yesterday that my debut poetry chapbook, Wolf Skin, won the Science Fiction Poetry Association’s 2015 Elgin Chapbook Award! The award honors the best speculative poetry chapbook published in 2013-2014. I was honored to be nominated, and I’m just plain thrilled to win! I’ve been writing speculative poetry since I was a kid, and I’m amazed to have…

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New Review of Wolf Skin in American Book Review

Posted on June 22, 2015March 8, 2018 by Mary McMyne

I have been traveling on and off, since early May, so I only just got the chance to be amazed by this wonderful new review of Wolf Skin in the latest issue of American Book Review!  Huge thanks are in order to Saara Myrene Raappana for her insightful close  reading. Here’s an excerpt: Reaching beyond the simple retelling or recasting…

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New Review of Wolf Skin

Posted on April 27, 2015March 30, 2019 by Mary McMyne

Last month brought some good news for Wolf Skin–the chapbook was nominated for the 2015 Elgin Award, an annual competition for speculative poetry collections coordinated by the Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA). And this week, SFPA member Sandra J. Lindow reviewed the collection for Star*Line, the SFPA’s quarterly publication. The review is based on a really close reading of…

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Interview about Wolf Skin with Tanya Chernov

Posted on June 17, 2014July 12, 2014 by Mary McMyne

The interview Tanya Chernov conducted with me about Wolf Skin is now up, over at her blog. Below is an excerpt from the beginning: TC: Let’s talk about that fantastic title! At what point in the process of composition did you nail it down and know you had the title of your manuscript? What does it represent for you?…

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Wolf Skin Release

Posted on May 21, 2014March 8, 2018 by Mary McMyne

My poetry chapbook, Wolf Skin, has just been released by dancing girl press! Wolf Skin follows a modern woman whose mother told her dark fairy tales when she was a girl. Many of the poems in the collection retell the tales of the Brothers Grimm from the perspectives of minor characters, such as the huntsman from Little Red…

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June 1 Reading in Chicago

Posted on May 4, 2014June 2, 2014 by Mary McMyne

I’ll be reading from Wolf Skin in Chicago on June 1 from 1:30-3:30 pm at the Woman Made Gallery Literary Series on the theme of “The Other,” as part of the group art show that is ongoing through June 26. Fellow Dancing Girl Press poet, Janeen Rastall, whose work is wonderful, will also be reading, and I’m a…

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Cover Art for Wolf Skin

Posted on February 24, 2014June 3, 2014 by Mary McMyne

Super excited to see the gorgeous cover art for Wolf Skin for the first time tonight! Huge thanks are in order to the talented Alisha Camus for the cover design. The photograph on which the cover is based is by George Rex.

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More Praise for Wolf Skin

Posted on January 30, 2014March 8, 2018 by Mary McMyne

I first encountered Jeannine Hall Gailey‘s work in The Los Angeles Review and Phantom Drift, and since then I’ve read all three of her books. If you haven’t read them, you’re missing out! In Becoming the Villainess, her first collection, Gailey explores the origins, behavior, and fates of the characters of our collective imagination who help to define what it means…

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