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My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me
''My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales'' is an anthology of fantasy stories based on the idea of fairy tales, edited by Kate Bernheimer and Carmen Giménez Smith. The book was published by Penguin Books on September 28, 2010. The anthology itself won the 2011 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology. Contents * Introduction (My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales), by Kate Bernheimer * Drawing the Curtain, by Gregory Maguire * "Baba Iaga and the Pelican Child", by Joy Williams * "Ardour", by Jonathon Keats * "I'm Here", by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya * "The Brother and the Bird", by Alissa Nutting * "Hansel and Gretel", by Francine Prose * "A Day in the Life of Half of Rumpelstiltskin", by Kevin Brockmeier * "With Hair of Hand-Spun Gold", by Neil LaBute * "The Swan Brothers", by Shelley Jackson * "The Warm Mouth", by Joyelle McSweeney * "Snow White, Rose Red", by Lydia Millet * "The Erlking", by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum * "Dappleg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Bernheimer
Kate Bernheimer is an American fairy-tale writer, scholar and editor. Works Kate Bernheimer's first three novels, a trilogy based on Russian, German, and Yiddish fairy tales, "The Complete Tales of Lucy Gold" (2011), ''The Complete Tales of Merry Gold'' (2006), and "The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold" (2001), were published by Fiction Collective 2. Amongst her other work, her short-story collection ''Horse, Flower, Bird'' was published in Fall 2010 by Coffee House Press. She edited the World Fantasy Award winning collection of short stories, '' My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales,'' which was published in Fall 2010 by Penguin Books. She is also the author of ''The Girl in the Castle Inside the Museum'', chosen as a best picture book of the year by Publishers Weekly in 2008. Her most recent book for children is "The Lonely Book," illustrated by Chris Sheban and an Amazon.com "Best Books of the Month" selection for May 2012; it was published in Apri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joyelle McSweeney
Joyelle McSweeney (first name meaning: Rejoicing) (born 1976) is a poet, playwright, novelist, critic, and professor at the University of Notre Dame. Her books include ''Toxicon & Arachne'' (2021) from Nightboat Books, ''The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults'' (2014) from University of Michigan Press, ''Salamandrine: 8 gothics'' (2013) and ''Nylund, the Sarcographer'' (2007), both from Tarpaulin Sky Press, as well as ''Percussion Grenade'' (2012), ''Flet'' (2007), ''The Commandrine and Other Poems'' (2004), and ''The Red Bird'' (2001), the latter four published by Fence Books. Her translations of Yi Sang: Selected Works (2020) were published alongside Don Mee Choi, Jack Jung, and Sawako Nakayasu by Wave Books. Her reviews appear at ''The Constant Critic'' and elsewhere, and her poetry has appeared in the ''Boston Review'', ''Poetry magazine'', '' Octopus Magazine,'' '' GultCult'', and '' Tarpaulin Sky'', among many other places. Along with her husband Johannes Göransson, sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Shepard
Jim Shepard (born 1956) is an American novelist and short story writer, who teaches creative writing and film at Williams College. Biography Shepard was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He received a B.A. at Trinity College in 1978 and an MFA from Brown University in 1980. He currently teaches creative writing and film at Williams College. His wife, Karen Shepard, is also a novelist. They are on the editorial board of the literary magazine '' The Common'', based at Amherst College. Writing Shepard's work has been published in ''McSweeney's'', ''Granta'', ''The Atlantic Monthly'', ''Esquire'', '' Harper's'', ''The New Yorker'', ''The Paris Review'', ''Ploughshares'', ''Triquarterly'', and ''Playboy''. His short story collection — ''Like You'd Understand, Anyway'' — won the Story Prize in 2007, and was nominated for a National Book Award in 2007. The novel ''Project X'' won the 2005 Massachusetts Book Award. Along with writing novels and short stories, Shepard has also dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Adrian
Chris Adrian (born November 7, 1970) is an American author. Adrian's writing styles in short stories vary greatly; from modernist realism to pronounced lyrical allegory. His novels both tend toward surrealism, having mostly realistic characters experience fantastic circumstances. He has written three novels: ''Gob's Grief'', ''The Children's Hospital'', and ''The Great Night''. In 2008, he published ''A Better Angel'', a collection of short stories. His short fiction has also appeared in ''The Paris Review, Zoetrope, Ploughshares, McSweeney's, The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories,'' and ''Story''. He was one of 11 fiction writers to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009. He lives in San Francisco. Education Adrian completed his bachelor's degree in English from the University of Florida in 1993. He received his M.D. from Eastern Virginia Medical School in 2001. He completed a pediatric residency at the University of California, San Francisco, was a student at Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelly Link
Kelly Link (born July 19, 1969) is an American editor and author of short stories. While some of her fiction falls more clearly within genre categories, many of her stories might be described as slipstream or magic realism: a combination of science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, and realism. Among other honors, she has won a Hugo award, three Nebula awards, and a World Fantasy Award for her fiction, and she was one of the recipients of the 2018 MacArthur "Genius" Grant. Biography Link is a graduate of Columbia University in New York and the MFA program of UNC Greensboro. In 1995, she attended the Clarion East Writing Workshop. Link and husband Gavin Grant manage Small Beer Press, based in Northampton, Massachusetts. The couple's imprint of Small Beer Press for intermediate readers is called Big Mouth House. They also co-edited St. Martin's Press's ''Year's Best Fantasy and Horror'' anthology series with Ellen Datlow for five years, ending in 2008. (The couple inheri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Martone (author)
Michael Martone (born August 22, 1955 in Fort Wayne, Indiana) is the author of nearly 30 books and chapbooks. He was a professor at the Program in Creative Writing at the University of Alabama, where he taught from 1996 until his retirement in 2020. Martone has won two Fellowships from the NEA and a grant from the Ingram Merrill Foundation. His stories and essays have appeared and been cited in the Pushcart Prize, The Best American Stories and The Best American Essays anthologies. Biography Martone attended Butler University and graduated from Indiana University. He holds an MA from the Writing Seminars of Johns Hopkins University, where he studied under John Barth. He has been a faculty member of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and has taught at Iowa State University, Harvard University, Syracuse University and the University of Alabama. He lives in Tuscaloosa with his wife, the poet Theresa Pappas. The couple has two sons, both of whom are writers: Sam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilya Kaminsky
Ilya Kaminsky (born April 18, 1977) is a hard-of-hearing, USSR-born, Ukrainian-Russian-Jewish-American poet, critic, translator and professor. He is best known for his poetry collections ''Dancing in Odesa'' and ''Deaf Republic'', which have earned him several awards. In 2019, the BBC named Kaminsky among "12 Artists who changed the world". Life Kaminsky was born in Odesa, former Soviet Union (now Ukraine), on April 18, 1977, to a Jewish family. He became hard of hearing at the age of four due to mumps. He began to write poetry as a teenager in Odesa, publishing a chapbook in Russian entitled ''The Blessed City.'' His family was granted asylum to live in the United States in 1993 due to anti-semitism in Ukraine, and settled in Rochester, New York. He started to write poems in English in 1994. Kaminsky is the author of two critically acclaimed collections of poetry, ''Dancing in Odesa'' (2004) and ''Deaf Republic'' (2019). Both books were written in English, Kaminsky's second l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Corin
Lucy Corin is an American novelist and short story writer. The winner of the 2012 American Academy of Arts and Letters John Guare Writer's Fund Rome Prize, Corin was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship in 2015. Writing Her collection of short stories, ''One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses'', was published by McSweeney's in 2013. ''Bustle'' wrote: "Corin caters to our fascination with neuroses and habits, and by exaggerating aspects of our thought processes and societal quirks, she leaves us thinking deeply about parts of humanity we don't often examine under a magnifying glass." A review by Jonathan Deuel in the ''Los Angeles Review of Books'' read: "The dreamy, fairy-tale qualities and allegorical ambitions of these stories are tempered with sophistication and terror, making ''One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses'' ageless...I'm frightened by Corin. I'm dazzled by her writing." Corin's second novel, ''The Swank Hotel'', ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Vaz
Katherine Vaz (born August 26, 1955) is an American writer. A Briggs-Copeland Fellow in Fiction at Harvard University (2003–9), a 2006–7 Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the Fall, 2012 Harman Fellow at Baruch College in New York, she is the author of the critically acclaimed novel ''Saudade'' (St. Martin’s Press, 1994), the first contemporary novel about Portuguese-Americans from a major New York publisher. It was optioned by Marlee Matlin/Solo One Productions and selected in the Barnes & Nobles Discover Great New Writers series. Her second novel, ''Mariana,'' (HarperCollins, 1997), was selected by the Library of Congress as one of the Top 30 International Books of 1998 and has been translated into six languages. Vaz's first short story collection ''Fado & Other Stories'' received the 1997 Drue Heinz Literature Prize and her second collection, ''Our Lady of the Artichokes'', won the 2007 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. Vaz is a recipient of a Lit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rikki Ducornet
Rikki Ducornet (; born Erica DeGre; April 19, 1943) is an American writer, poet, and artist. Her work has been described as “linguistically explosive and socially relevant,” and praised for “deploy ngtactics familiar to the historical avant-garde, including an emphasis on gnosticism, cosmology, diablerie, bestiary, eroticism, and revolution, to produce an astounding body of work, cogent and ethical in its beauty and spirit.” Biography Rikki Ducornet was born in Canton, New York. Gerard DeGré, Ducornet's father, was a professor of social philosophy, and her mother Muriel hosted community-interest programs on radio and television. Ducornet was raised in a multicultural household as her father was Cuban and her mother was Russian-Jewish. Ducornet's father encouraged her to read books by authors such as Albert Camus and Lao Tzu, and to pursue an exploration of knowledge. ''Alice in Wonderland'' was an especially formative book, and inspired her 1993 novel ''The Jade Cabinet' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen Joy Fowler
Karen Joy Fowler is an American author of science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction. Her work often centers on the nineteenth century, the lives of women, and alienation. She is best known as the author of the best-selling novel ''The Jane Austen Book Club'' that was made into a movie of the same name. Biography Fowler was born in Bloomington, Indiana, and spent the first eleven years of her life there. Her family then moved to Palo Alto, California. Fowler attended the University of California, Berkeley, and majored in political science. After having a child during the last year of her master's program, she spent seven years devoted to child-raising. Feeling restless, Fowler decided to take a dance class, and then a creative writing class at the University of California, Davis. Realizing that she was never going to make it as a dancer, Fowler began to publish science fiction stories, making a name for herself with the short story "Recalling Cinderella" (1985) in '' L R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham (born November 6, 1952) is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his 1998 novel '' The Hours'', which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999. Cunningham is a senior lecturer of creative writing at Yale University. Early life and education Cunningham was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and grew up in Pasadena, California. He studied English literature at Stanford University, where he earned his degree. Later, at the University of Iowa, he received a Michener Fellowship and was awarded a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. While studying at Iowa, he had short stories published in the ''Atlantic Monthly'' and the ''Paris Review''. His short story "White Angel" was later used as a chapter in his novel ''A Home at the End of the World''. It was included in "The Best American Short Stories, 1989", published by Houghton Mifflin. In 1993, Cunningham received a Guggenheim Fellowship and in 1988 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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