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Marly Youmans

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Aiken, South Carolina, The United States

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What I'm up to in print--in 2011 I published a collection of poems, The Throne of Psyche, and my novel A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage appeared on March 30th. You may read the first chapter at Scribd: http://thepalaceat2.blogspot.com/2012.... My novels and poetry collections are: Little Jordan (David R. Godine, Publisher, 1995), Catherwood (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996), The Wolf Pit (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001/Shaara Award), The Curse of the Raven Mocker (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003), Claire (Louisiana State University, 2003), Ingledove (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005), Val/Orson (P. S. Publishing, 2009), and brand new The Throne of Psyche (Mercer University Press, 2011); forthcoming are: Glimmerglass (P. S. Pu...more What I'm up to in print--in 2011 I published a collection of poems, The Throne of Psyche, and my novel A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage appeared on March 30th. You may read the first chapter at Scribd: http://thepalaceat2.blogspot.com/2012.... My novels and poetry collections are: Little Jordan (David R. Godine, Publisher, 1995), Catherwood (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996), The Wolf Pit (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001/Shaara Award), The Curse of the Raven Mocker (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003), Claire (Louisiana State University, 2003), Ingledove (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005), Val/Orson (P. S. Publishing, 2009), and brand new The Throne of Psyche (Mercer University Press, 2011); forthcoming are: Glimmerglass (P. S. Publishing, 2011); Maze of Blood, (P. S. Publishing, 2012); The Foliate Head (UK: Stanza Press, 2012); and Thaliad (Montreal: Phoenicia Publishing). A misplaced Southerner, I live hard by the source of the Susquehanna with my husband and our three children.

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Everything about Marly Youmans that matters can be found out by reading her stories and poems.

However, the shortcut version is this: Marly’s parents came from Georgia, and she was born over the state line in Aiken, South Carolina. Growing up, she lived in many places but favorites were the Carolinas, plus Gramercy and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In Gramercy she spoke Cajun French (which, alas, she has forgotten), fished, wore live green-and-pink lizard earrings, and grew a magical garden that grew into the trees--fed by sugar slag from the local refinery where her father was a chemist. When she lived up north, her teacher thought that she must be mentally defective, a drawl indicating some general torpor in thought processes! The place where she has had the longest ties is Cullowhee, North Carolina, where her mother and father retired from Western Carolina University as Head of Serials at Hunter Library and Professor of Analytical Chemistry; she still visits at least twice a year. Currently she lives in New York, a place that is a bit like the Snow Queen’s palace: too cold for mortals and, although still on the Appalachian spine, too far away from the Carolinas. Marly is married (of course--why else would she be living in a Yankee snow drift?) and the mother of two sons and a daughter; she writes when she is not ferrying children.

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Edward T. Wheeler, "There and Back Again." A review of A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage

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	Catherwood 3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 97 ratings — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Curse of the Raven Mocker 3.37 of 5 stars 3.37 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage 4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ingledove 3.44 of 5 stars 3.44 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Little Jordan 3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wolf Pit 3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Val / Orson 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2009	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Throne of Psyche: Poems 4.8 of 5 stars 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Claire: Poems 5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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