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Mary McMyne

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Baton Rouge, Louisiana, The United States

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Mary McMyne is the author of Wolf Skin (Dancing Girl Press, 2014), winner of the 2015 Elgin Chapbook Award. Her poems, stories, and essays have appeared in Gulf Coast, Cimarron Review, Ninth Letter, Southern Humanities Review, The Chattahoochee Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Philadelphia Stories, Los Angeles Review, Word Riot, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the Faulkner-Wisdom Prize for a Novel-in-Progress, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Promise Award, and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship for parent artists to Vermont Studio Center. She teaches creative writing at Lake Superior State University, co-edits the journal Border Crossing , and edits poetry for Faerie Magazine .

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New Poem in Strange Horizons

My poem, “The Mother Searches for Her Own Story,” appears in this week’s issue of Strange Horizons. This one is from the full-length poetry collection I’m working on, and I’m so honored to have it appear alongside a story by Rivqa Rafael and a poem by Ugonna-Ora Owoh. Check out the poetry podcast!

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Average rating: 4.51 · 39 ratings · 13 reviews · 4 distinct works

	Wolf Skin 4.82 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Faerie Magazine (Issue #29) by Carolyn Turgeon (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Alice Hoffman (Goodreads Author) , Kate Bernheimer 4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 Way North: Collected Upper Peninsula New Works by Ron Riekki (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sharon Dilworth (Contributor) , Janice Repka (Contributor) 3.66 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Apex Magazine Issue 65 by Sigrid Ellis (Editor), Mary McMyne (Goodreads Author) , Kris Millering 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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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Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power

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