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Holly Lyn Walrath’s poetry and short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Fireside Fiction, Luna Station Quarterly, Liminality, and elsewhere. She is the author of Glimmerglass Girl, (Finishing Line Press, 2018). She holds a B.A. in English from The University of Texas and a Master’s in Creative Writing from the University of Denver. She is a freelance editor and host of The Weird Circular, an e-newsletter for writers containing submission calls and writing prompts. Find her online at her website or on Twitter.

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	Other Terrors - An Inclusive Anthology by Vince A. Liaguno (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rena Mason (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Holly Walrath (Goodreads Author) 3.55 avg rating — 1,305 ratings — published 2022 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Glimmerglass Girl 3.86 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Undead: A Poetry Anthology of Ghosts, Ghouls, and More by Bianca Lynne Spriggs (Editor), Katerina Stoykova-Klemer (Editor), Tony Barnstone (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.38 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The 2017 Rhysling Anthology: The best science fiction, fantasy & horror poetry of 2016 selected by the Science Fiction Poetry Association by David C. Kopaska-Merkel (Editor), Lore Bernier (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Holly Walrath (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.25 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The 2019 Rhysling Anthology: The best science fiction, fantasy & horror poetry of 2018 selected by the Science Fiction Poetry Association by David C. Kopaska-Merkel (Editor), Beth Cato (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Peter Ullian (Contributor) 4.43 avg rating — 21 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Robots & Artificial Intelligence Short Stories by Luke Dormehl (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Ben Livingstone (Goodreads Author), George Cotronis (Goodreads Author) 3.74 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The 2018 Rhysling Anthology: The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Poetry of 2017 Selected by the Science Fiction Poetry Association by Linda D. Addison (Editor), Holly Walrath (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Sara Tantlinger (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Our Space: Shorts & Poetry from the Houston Community by Holly Walrath (Goodreads Author) (Editor & Contributor), Holly Lyn Walrath (Goodreads Author), Layla Al-Bedawi 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Medias Res: Stories from the In-Between by Holly Walrath (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Holly Lyn Walrath (Goodreads Author), John Dutterer 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“We live in a world of unfulfilled fairytales.”
― Holly Walrath, Glimmerglass Girl

tags: fairy-tales, fairy-tales-for-adults, fantasy, feminism, magical-realism, poetry, poetry-quotes, speculative, speculative-poetry

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“Each day Marda gets closer. The sub circles coral reefs off the coasts, where mermaids are said to like the colors of the schools of fishes, and train them to swim around their necks like jewelry or live behind their ears, beneath their long hair. Sometimes mermaids like shallow places, but mostly they like the dark and the beautiful, uncharted, abandoned, soulless parts of the undiscovered world.”
― Holly Walrath, Pulp Literature Issue 7 Summer 2015

tags: fantasy, fantasy-fiction, flash-fiction, mermaids, pulp-literature, short-fiction, short-stories

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“But he goes all quiet. His ghost eyes roll / up in his head, white-on-white-on-white, / and he runs his shaking hands over his scars, / looks up like he’s going to wish on a / star.”
― Holly Walrath, The 2017 Rhysling Anthology: The best science fiction, fantasy & horror poetry of 2016 selected by the Science Fiction Poetry Association

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“We live in a world of unfulfilled fairytales.”
― Holly Walrath, Glimmerglass Girl

tags: fairy-tales, fairy-tales-for-adults, fantasy, feminism, magical-realism, poetry, poetry-quotes, speculative, speculative-poetry

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“When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

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“It’s amazing how much easier it is to bake a cake when you’ve got an eternity to get it right.”
― Holly Walrath, Luna Station Quarterly: Issue 030

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“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

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“fluttering amidst the stars / stands the thin black/ stalk / of a glimmerglass girl /”
― Holly Walrath, Glimmerglass Girl

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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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