JoSelle Vanderhooft is the critically acclaimed author of poetry collections The Minotaur’s Last Letter To His Mother (Ash Phoenix, to be released by Sam’s Dot Publishing in 2009 or 2010), the 2008 Stoker Award-nominated Ossuary (Sam’s Dot Publishing), Desert Songs (Cross-Cultural Communications, forthcoming), The Handless Maiden and Other Tales Twice Told (Sam’s Dot Publishing, 2008), Fathers, Daughters, Ghosts & Monsters (VanZeno Press, 2009), The Memory Palace (Norilana Books, 2009) and Death Masks (Papaveria Press, 2009), the novels The Tale Of The Miller’s Daughter (Papaveria Press) and Owl Skin (Papaveria Press, forthcoming) and Ugly Things, a collection of short stories from Drollerie Press to be released in 2009. She is currently at work on a series of novels for Drollerie Press as well.
Her poetry and fiction has appeared online and in print in a number of publications, including Cabinet des Fees, Star*Line, Mythic Delirium, MYTHIC, Jabberwocky, Helix, The Seventh Quarry and several others. An assistant editor of a gay and lesbian newspaper by day, she lives in Salt Lake City, Utah with her family and four cats
