Mary McMyne writes prose and poetry. Her work has recently appeared in Painted Bride Quarterly, Los Angeles Review, Pedestal Magazine, Phantom Drift: A Journal of New Fabulism, New Delta Review, and other journals, and is forthcoming in the anthology, The Way North: Collected Upper Peninsula New Works from Wayne State University Press. She won the Faulkner Prize for a Novel-in-Progress for her project retelling the Odysseus myth from the perspective of a Vietnam soldier’s wife in the Deep South. Originally from Baton Rouge, she studied English and creative writing at Louisiana State University and received her MFA in fiction from New York University. She now lives with her husband and daughter in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, where she teaches writing at Lake Superior State University and co-edits Border Crossing, a journal of literature and art. Visit her online at marymcmyne.com.