Marly Youmans
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marly Youmans is an American writer born in Aiken, South Carolina. She grew up in Louisiana, North Carolina, and elsewhere, and she currently lives in the village of Cooperstown, New York, a place of some literary interest--once the home of James Fenimore Cooper.
Her published work consists of short stories, poems, a collection of poetry, three novels, and two fantasies. She is the winner of The Michael Shaara Award for The Wolf Pit, her third novel, as well as a two-time winner of The Theodore Hoepfner Award for the short story and the winner of The New Writers Award of Capital Magazine (New York), also for the short story.
She has published short fiction in a wide range of magazines and anthologies, including Story Quarterly, The Southern Humanities Review, The South Carolina Review, Carolina Quarterly, Argosy, Kansas Quarterly, Fantasy Magazine, Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, The Raleigh News & Observer, Logorrhea (Bantam), Blue Moon Café IV (MacAdam/Cage), Northwest Passages (Windstorm), SCIFICTION, This is How We Live (The University of North Carolina, 2000, Mars Hill Review, Salon Fantastique (Thunder's Mouth), and others.
Her poetry has appeared in Canto, Books & Culture, Ploughshares, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Black Warrior Review, The Little Magazine, The Blueline Anthology (Syracuse University Press), and many other anthologies and magazines.
[edit] Bibliography
- Val/Orson (P. S. Publishing, forthcoming in novella series)
- Ingledove (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005) 978-0374335991
- The Curse of the Raven Mocker (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003) 978-0374316679
- Claire (Louisiana State University - Poetry Series, 2003) 0-8071-2901-1
- The Wolf Pit (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001) 978-0374291952
- Catherwood (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996) 978-0374119720
- Little Jordan (David R. Godine, 1995) 978-1567920291
