Midori Snyder
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Midori Snyder has published six acclaimed novels for adults, as well as children's fiction, poetry, and short stories.
Snyder's first novel, a lyrical adult fairy tale titled Soulstring, was published in 1987. She followed this up with a trilogy set in an imaginary world: New Moon, Sadar's Keep, and Beldan's Fire. (These books were originally called the "Queen's Quarter" series but are now called the Oran trilogy.)
The Flight of Michael McBride, published in 1994, combines Irish immigrant folklore with the indigenous and Spanish legends of the West a hundred years ago, during a Texas cattle drive. Her best known novel, The Innamorati, published in 1998, is a complex, robust, and sensual tale drawing upon Italian and early Roman legends and the theater of the Commedia dell'Arte. It went on to win the Mythopoeic Award for Novel of the Year. Hannah's Garden, which appeared in 2004, is a contemporary fantasy for young adult readers -- a tale about music, faeries, and family dynamics, set in the rural Midwest.
Snyder's short fiction has been published in numerous anthologies, including The Armless Maiden; Black Thorn, White Rose; Swan Sister; the Borderland series; and The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. Her essay "The Monkey Girl" appeared in Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales (Expanded Edition), edited by Kate Bernheimer.
Snyder also writes articles on myth and folklore, and is co-editor of The Endicott Studio Journal of Mythic Arts.
