Anne Petty – You Will Be Missed
- At July 21, 2013
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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Just heard that writer, editor and publisher Anne Petty of now-closed Kitsune Books, has passed away peacefully after a long fight with cancer. Anne epitomized everything I would like to be when I grow up – she was smart, spunky, funny and fierce. Not only was she an author, she was an enthusiastic critical writer and someone who worked tirelessly to promote others, especially her authors. I feel honored to have been one of them; Anne was the original editor and publisher of She Returns to the Floating World, through Kitsune Books. She was caring and forthright. She loved anime and fox-wife folk tales, Tolkien and Neil Gaiman, and she was excellent and perceptive reader.
Here is an interview with Anne I did back in 2011. Her spirit and humor will be clear to anyone who knew her:
https://webbish6.com/interview-with-publisher-and-author-anne-petty-2/
I think the world is poorer without her, and I know I will miss her.
Jeannine Hall Gailey served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington and the author of Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, and winner of the Moon City Press Book Prize and SFPA’s Elgin Award, Field Guide to the End of the World. Her latest, Flare, Corona from BOA Editions, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. She’s also the author of PR for Poets, a Guidebook to Publicity and Marketing. Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily and The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, and JAMA.
