Mary McMyne writes prose and poetry. Her work has recently appeared in Los Angeles Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Pedestal Magazine, and a number of other publications. Her project reimagining the Odysseus myth from the perspective of a Vietnam soldier's wife earned her the Faulkner Prize for a Novel-in-Progress. She has a Master of Fine Arts degree in fiction from New York University, as well as degrees in English and creative writing from Louisiana State University. She lives with her husband and daughter in beautiful Upper Peninsula Michigan, where she teaches English, creative writing, and education courses at Lake Superior State University and co-edits Border Crossing, a journal of literature and art. She contributes nonfiction to The Nervous Breakdown.