Mary McMyne lives and writes in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan. Her poetry is forthcoming in the Los Angeles Review and has recently appeared in a number of other journals, including Pedestal Magazine, Phantom Drift: A Journal of New Fabulism, Prime Number Magazine,and New Delta Review. 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. She earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in English and creative writing from Louisiana State University and received her MFA in fiction from New York University. An assistant professor at Lake Superior State University, she teaches English and creative writing and co-edits Border Crossing, a journal of literature and art.