Midori Snyder (whose favorite fruit is the mango), is a writer, folklorist, and the co-director of
The Endicott Studio for Mythic Art. She has published eight books for adults, young adults, and children, winning the Mythopoeic Award for her Italianate novel
The Innamorati. Her short stories, essays, and poems have appeared in many journals, anthologies, and "best of the year" collections. Raised in the U.S. and Africa, Midori studied African oral narratives, earned a Masters in English Literature from the University of Wisconsin, and taught English and Creative Writing to high school students in Italy and Milwaukee. After many years in Milwaukee, she and her husband, Stephen Haessler, spent the last year living in Tucson, Arizona, and will soon be en route to Grand Rapids, Michigan. Her forthcoming books include a fairy novel with Jane Yolen, and a sequrel to
The Innamorati. For more information, please visit Midori's
website -- which includes a regular blog on art, literature, myth and the writing life titled
In the Labyrinth.
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