About the Editors
Editor-in-Chief
Sari Krosinsky lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with her partner and two cats.
She received a B.A. in religious studies and a M.A. in creative writing from the University of New Mexico. Her poems have appeared in Pebble Lake Review, The American Poetry Journal, Arsenic Lobster, The Same and Verse Daily.
Fiction Editor
Leslie Fox lived in Central America during her formative years and in New Mexico since the mid-70s – before it was cool.
She writes novels, short stories, plays, screenplays and creative nonfiction. Some of her short fiction has appeared in The Medical Muse, red. a journal of arts, Earth’s Daughters and Earthships: A New Mecca Poetry Collection. She has a M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of New Mexico.
Fickle Muses Blog
August 19, 2007
The fairy tale forest is ominous; wolves lurk and malevolent trees clutch at young ankles. The woods are brimming with dangers: Hansel and Gretel meet a cannibalistic witch; Little Red Riding Hood meets the cunning wolf; Snow White (at least in the Disney version) spends a frightful night terrorized by trees. As a child, my worst fear was being lost in the woods overnight, and no wonder, after all of the scary depictions I’d witnessed. Even Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz meets a grove of spiteful apple trees. Exploring the German Reinhardswald, Thomas O’Neill, in a National Geographic article on the Brothers Grimm, wonders how Little Red Riding Hood’s mother let her go into such a deep dark forest alone.
Jonathan Young says the fairy tale forest may represent the fear of what is within (wolves, monsters, et al) or parts of our feral and chaotic unconscious (our inner monsters), “shadow energies” deep inside our psyche that, while perilous, hold our most inspired ideas. Terri Windling writes in “White as Snow: Fairy Tales and Fantasy,” in Snow White, Blood Red, that “to travel the wood, to face its dangers, is to emerge transformed by this experience.”
– Leslie Fox
July 22, 2007
We are pleased to announce Fickle Muses' nominees for the 2007 Best of the 'Net Anthology:
For Fiction:
From the Leaf Lore
by M. M. De Voe
Fickle Myths
By Neil de la Flor and Maureen Seaton
For Poetry:
Three Poems of Kathlin Hermandsdottir
by Carol L. MacKay
Still Without Rhyme
by Tony Zurlo
Hera Spies on Zeus From the Corner Booth at the Diner
by Cassandra Labairon
Thoreau's Last Hunt
by Jennifer Koiter
Homer-Erotic
by Chuck Rybak
Poem for Cafe Tazza
by Kenneth Gurney
– The Editors
July 8, 2007
We have just rounded the halfway mark in the first year of publishing on Fickle Muses. As volume 2 (beginning January 2008) approaches, we are considering a variety of changes in FM's format. While I'm still attached to some of my original ideas (such as the short weekly features – see the January 14 blog), more important to me is serving the needs of FM's readers and contributors. Toward that end, we're launching a survey to get feedback on some of the areas where we're considering changes, with open comments sections for any issues we haven't considered. I urge you to participate and help us decide FM's course for the coming year: Reader Survey
– Sari
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