The Summer 2007 issue of Endicott Studio’s Journal of Mythic Arts is up, and this one is geared for the YA crowd; there are poems from “Stardust” author Neil Gaiman and fiction from my Bookslut reading partner, Catherynne M. Valente, and two good essays, one on the “Orphaned Hero” in Harry Potter etc and the other on Why Disney’s The Little Mermaid May Not Be As Feminist as You Think – I mean, if you thought it was, which I never really did, but I did like the singing lobster. And there may be two poems from Becoming the Villainess in there as well…

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.


