Author Biography and Bibliography

Marly Youmans is the author of six books; she has current and forthcoming poems, novellas, and a story in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Books & Culture, The Hyper Texts, Argosy #3 and Argosy # 4, and Blue Moon Café IV (MacAdam/Cage). Also forthcoming in May is Ingledove (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, May 2005), a fantasy which Diana Wynne Jones has called "a marvelous book, breathtakingly wonderful," and "even better than Marly Youmans's first book about the magic land of Adantis, The Curse of the Raven Mocker, where the inhabitants and their magic are half Cherokee and half Border Celtic" (FSG 2003). Marly's other books include The Wolf Pit (FSG 2001), winner of The Michael Shaara Award for 2001, Catherwood (FSG 1996), and Little Jordan, a novella from David R. Godine, Publisher (1995). She has published in many other publications and anthologies, such as Carolina Quarterly, The Raleigh News & Observer, Ploughshares, Kansas Quarterly, and Story Quarterly. Her short fiction has received two Theodore Hoepfner awards for year's best story from Southern Humanities Review and the New Writers Award from Capitol: The Magazine of New York's Capitol Region.

Marly is a native and longtime resident of the Carolinas. She now lives with her husband, two sons, and a daughter in the village of Cooperstown, New York, where she writes in the long shadow of James Fenimore Cooper. Outside her window, all is infinite winter and the mazy tracks of tourists searching for the Baseball Hall of Fame. For more on the books and writings of Marly Youmans, visit her at www.marlyyoumans.com.





Photograph by Annabel Jones Link.