Helen Pilinovsky: born in Vienna and raised in New York by Russian émigré parents. She is a doctoral candidate in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where she is working on the archetypal differences between the canons of Eastern and Western European fairy tales. Her reviews have appeared in Marvels & Tales: the Journal of Fairy Tale Studies, and for the New York Review of Science Fiction, and she has been published at the Endicott Studio for the Mythic Arts, in Realms of Fantasy magazine, and in a selection of academic journals. She has guest-edited issues of the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts and Extrapolations, and she is the Academic Editor of Cabinet des Fées. Her interests include fairy tales, folklore, and the fantastic, as well as teaching, arguing literary theory, and silversmithing.
Catherynne M. Valente: a poet, author and scholar whose work can be found online and in print in such journals as Pedestal Magazine, Fantastic Metropolis, Jabberwocky, Fantasy Magazine and is featured in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror #18. Her critical series on feminine archetypes in Greek and Roman drama has appeared in successive issues of the International Journal of the Humanities. Her latest novel, Yume no Hon: The Book of Dreams, was recently published by Prime Books. Her four-book series of interconnected fairy tales in the tradition of Arabian Nights, The Orphan's Tales, will be released by Bantam/Dell in fall 2007. Her website has more information about her current and forthcoming projects.
Erzebet YellowBoy: artist, author, editor, bookbinder. Her short stories have appeared in Elysian Fiction, Fantasy Magazine, Not One of Us, and Jabberwocky 2, Sleeping Beauty, Indeed, Mythic and others. Her poetry has appeared in Mythic Delirium, Goblin Fruit and the Book of Hope, published by Beyond BordersIn 2001 she founded Papaveria Press, a private press specializing in fairy tales and fantastic visions. When she is not writing or binding books, she plays with bones, using natural elements to reshape and revisit myth and folktales. A sampling of her work can be seen here.
JoSelle Vanderhooft: author of several poetry collections, including The Minotaur's Last Letter to His Mother (Ash Phoenix), the Stoker-nominated Ossuary (Sam's Dot Publishing), Desert Songs (Cross-Cultural Communications, 2008), Tales Twice Told (Sam's Dot Publishing, 2008), Fathers, Daughters, Ghosts and Monsters (VanZeno, forthcoming) and Death Masks (Papaveria Press, 2008), the novels The Tale of the Miller's Daughter (Papaveria Press) and Owl Skin (Papaveria Press, 2008) and a collection of short stories from Drollerie Press to be released in 2008. Her poetry and fiction has appeared online and in print in a number of publications, including Cabinet des Fées, Star*Line, Mythic Delirium, Mythic, Jabberwocky, The Seventh Quarry and several others. A long-time contributor to Cabinet des Fées and a lover of the bizarre, the macabre and the whimsical, JoSelle lives with her family and far too many cats in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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