Just in time for Halloween! GennaRose Nethercott reads two spooky entries from the imagined bestiary 50 Beasts to Break Your Heart.

GennaRose Nethercott is a writer and folklorist. Her work has appeared in The American Scholar, Bomb Magazine, Pank, The Literary Review, and others. Her first book, The Lumberjack’s Dove, was selected by Louise Glück as a winner of the National Poetry Series, and her debut novel—the modern fairytale Thistlefoot—was published last month. She tours nationally and internationally performing strange tales (sometimes with puppets in tow) and composing poems-to-order on an antique typewriter with her team The Traveling Poetry Emporium.

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Read "Yune" and "Yslani," along with other entries from 50 Beasts to Break Your Heart, at Bomb

GennaRose Nethercott's website

GennaRose Nethercott on All Things Considered

"Three Poems" at Pank

Thistlefoot reviewed in Kirkus Reviews

The Lumberjack’s Dove reviewed in Berkely Fiction Review

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