Sonya Taaffe Sonya Taaffe has a confirmed addiction to myth, folklore, and dead languages. Poems and short stories of hers have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Locus Award, shortlisted for the SLF Fountain Award, honorably mentioned in
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, and reprinted in
The Alchemy of Stars: Rhysling Award Winners Showcase, The Best of Not One of Us, Fantasy: The Best of the Year 2006, and
Best New Romantic Fantasy 2. A respectable amount of her work can be found in
Postcards from the Province of Hyphens and
Singing Innocence and Experience (Prime Books). She holds master’s degrees in Classics from Brandeis and Yale.
She says, "currently reading? For the first time, Peter Gould’s
Write Naked, Paul Muldoon’s
Horse Latitudes, and Edward Rowe
Snow’s Storms and Shipwrecks of New England; re-reading, Patricia McKillip’s
Riddle-Master, Mary Gentle’s
Ash: A Secret History, and Pamela F. Service’s
Winter of Magic’s Return and
Tomorrow’s Magic."
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