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Veronica is a writer whose work has appeared in Interfictions, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Trunk Stories, and Jabberwocky. Her poem The Room has been published by Papaveria Press. She writes poems that look like stories and stories that look like essays, and just to complete the cycle, essays that look like poems.

Veronica is currently an Assistant Professor in the English Department of Queens College-CUNY. In May 2007 she earned her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, having completed her dissertation, Re–Visionary Fantasies: Feminist Fairy Tales and Myth, about contemporary feminist revisions of fairy tales and classical myth, in which she closely examines the tropes of the mother–daughter relationship and the magic mirror. She has published academic work on the Harry Potter series as well as on interstitial arts. She has taught courses on English Renaissance women writers, 20th–century revisions of classical literature, children’s literature, and mother–daughter relationships in 20th–century literature. In her capacity as a scholar, she appears on the forthcoming collector’s edition DVD of The Princess Bride, expounding on the movie’s relationship to the fairy tale tradition.

Her writing is deeply infused with the city, its history, sights, and sounds, as well as with her mother’s books of fairy tales, which she read constantly while growing up. New York City history is one of her not–so–secret passions and interests, along with trains, sharks, Gene Kelly musicals, Lewis Carroll’s Alice, and The Wizard of Oz. She also bears a more–than–passing resemblance to Ellen Kushner; this is a wonderful thing and entirely coincidental.

Visit her blog for musings on literature, teaching, and other interests.

Bibliography

• “Bluebeard’s Final Girl, or, The Revisionist.”.  Journal of Mythic Arts.  August 2008.
• “Big Bad.”  Journal of Mythic Arts.  August 2008.
• “Rats.” Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 21. eds. Kelly Link, Gavin Grant, and Ellen Datlow. 2008
• “Serpents.” The Best of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. eds. Kelly Link and Gavin Grant. 2007.
• “Rats.” Interfictions. eds. Delia Sherman and Dora Goss. 2007.
• “Sir Walter Raleigh in Guiana.” Jabberwocky 2. ed. Sean Wallace. 2006.
• “The Odyssey.” Journal of Mythic Arts. May 2006.
• “Swimming.” Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. 2006.
• The Room. Papaveria Press, 2006.
• “Why I Hate Penn Station.” Trunk Stories. 2005.
• “How to Bring Someone Back From the Dead.” Jabberwocky. ed. Sean Wallace. 2005.
• “How to Bring Someone Back From the Dead.” Journal of Mythic Arts. Autumn 2004.
• “Evenfall #3.” Rev. of Evenfall by Pete Stathis. Trunk Stories. November 2003.
• “Magic and Misery.” Rev. of Witch Week by Diana Wynne Jones. Trunk Stories. November 2003.
• “Serpents.” Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. November 2003.