JoSelle Vanderhooft

JoSelle Vanderhooft is the author of the novel The Tale of the Miller's Daughter (Papaveria Press), and the forthcoming poetry collections The Minotaur's Last Letter to His Mother (Ash Phoenix), Desert Dreams (Papaveria) and Desert Songs (Cross-Cultural Communications). Her second novel, Owl Skin, will be released in December 2007 by Papaveria Press. Her fiction has appeared several times in Reflection's Edge and Byzarium, and her poetry can be found in a number of zines such as Goblin Fruit, Mythic Delirium, Star*Line and Cabinet des Fees.

Joselle's book reviews can be found here.

The Desert in the North by JoSelle Vanderhooft (fantasy)
       The desert is fond of her catches: and this one, bound beneath snow, is no less hungry. Vanderhooft returns with another lyrical piece from the land's own viewpoint, where the Earth enjoys the slow death of her victims in the icy north.

Ganymede of the Thames by JoSelle Vanderhooft (fantasy)
      Muses are handy things - if you can get them to talk to you. A river god reveals too much to a mortal man searching for stories and begins to consider darker actions to keep him bound forever.

The Tragedy of Ferdinand by JoSelle Vanderhooft (fantasy)
      An obsessive lycanthrope wearies of hiding his nature in this delicately drawn portrait of a night spent watching the woman who cannot be his.

Galatea Revisited by JoSelle Vanderhooft (modern myth)
      What if you accidentally created the perfect lover - and what if you were already married? This modern faerytale tells a lush story of creation, beautiful people, yearning, and secrecy.

The Tale of the Scorpion Prince by JoSelle Vanderhooft (fantasy/faery tale)
      Blasted by sand, eroded by time, detested by gods. In this powerful retelling of the myth of Prometheus, a forsaken man remembers the birth of a new era - and the loss of an old intimacy.

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