What, Why, How: Mary Mackey

What:

I write poetry, novels, and screenplays, but I never intentionally set out to become a writer. Instead, I came into the world as a poet and storyteller, telling stories and making up rhymed poems before I could read. If this were 7,000 years ago, and we were all sitting around a campfire, I would probably be retelling our myths, lying about my heroic encounters with fantastic beasts, singing lullabies to our babies, and chanting the epic poems of our people (while adding a few verses...