Terry McGarry and Veronica Schanoes will kick off The New York Review of Science Fiction Reading Series in 2013 with a pair of weird tellings. The event begins at 7 p.m. on January 8.
Terry McGarry, author of the Tor fantasy novels Illumination, The Binder’s Road, and Triad, who also has published short fiction in over 40 magazines and anthologies. She has been a freelance copyeditor since 1987, specializing in science fiction and fantasy, and she worked at The New Yorker magazine for 15 years. A New York City native, she has also been a bartender on Wall Street, an English major at Princeton, and a street trader in Ireland; she holds a third-level belt in Krav Maga and plays Irish traditional music at gigs and pub sessions in the city and on Long Island, where she currently lives. She’s on the web at terrymcgarry.com.
Veronica Schanoes’ short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons and Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and she has a story forthcoming in Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling’s Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells. She also is an assistant professor of English at Queens College-CUNY who specializes in children’s literature and speculative fiction. Schanoes is particularly interested in children’s literature, women’s writing, and fantastic literature. Her publications include such intriguing topics as “Fearless Children and Fabulous Monsters: Lewis Carroll, Angela Carter, and Beastly Girls” (Marvels and Tales) and “Book as Mirror, Mirror as Book: The Significance of the Looking-glass in Contemporary Revisions of Fairy Tales” (Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts.)
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